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Presentimiento

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Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s award-winning memoir recalls his childhood in New Mexico and his reflections on ancestry, working to fill in the gaps in his memory to honor those loved most. 
  • 01 January 2016
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Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s award-winning memoir recalls his childhood in New Mexico and his reflections on ancestry, working to fill in the gaps in his memory to honor those loved most. 
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Price: $17.95
Pages: 272
Publisher: Autumn House Press
Imprint: Autumn House Press
Series: Autumn House Press Nonfiction Prize
Publication Date: 01 January 2016
ISBN: 9781938769139
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / American / Hispanic & Latino, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs
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"In short, Presentimiento is a book to read slowly and reread for the richness of its imagery, the complexity of its portraits, its evocative power, and, finally, its affirmation of the presence of the past." —Southwestern American Literature 

"In this unusual work of creative nonfiction, the author’s memories spill out like newly discovered treasures. In a narrative framed by his visit to his aging mother in his native New Mexico, Fletcher provides a series of prose poems–some short, some essay-length–inspired by artifacts that his artist mother 'rescued' from the desert and his own explorations of places he heard about in childhood stories." —Kirkus Reviews 

"Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams offers the reader elegant prose and enchanting imagery on every page, revealing to us a grace-filled world where miracles are as real as sage sparrows and mysteries reside behind every rock and piñon tree. Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s exquisite memoir is filled with unforgettable family portraits and the taste, texture, and rich aroma of his New Mexico childhood, in a landscape filled with living spirits." —Dinty W. Moore

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher’s Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams is the winner of the 2015 Autumn House Nonfiction Prize selected by Dinty W. Moore. Presentimiento is also a 2016 International Latino Book Awards Autobiography finalist and a 2017 Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Memoirs selection. His first book, Descanso For My Father: Fragments of A Life (University of Nebraska American Lives Series, 2012), won the Colorado Book Award for Creative Nonfiction and the International Book Award for Best New Nonfiction. He teaches in the MFA Programs at Colorado State University and Vermont College of Fine Arts. A native New Mexican, he lives with his wife and two children in Fort Collins, Colorado.