The Legend of La Diosa
The Legend of La Diosa
The Legend of La Diosa is Chuck Rosenthal’s rollicking paean to love, love, love. His story tells us why, when you meet someone you love, you feel as though you’ve known her/him forever. It’s because that’s exactly what’s happening, you have known that person forever, and journeyed headlong to be face to face at last.
Rosenthal’s story defies summation but asks the question, “What do you do when you live in the grip of a love you’ve yet to meet – and it’s real.” His language cavorts as he spins his audacious tale to focus on happiness as a value. Not many writers dare this because happiness is damned hard to write (and because writers famously now little about it).
Fortunately, Chuck Rosenthal knows happiness in love and has lived to tell the tale – the tale of the legend of La Diosa.
Praise
“Chuck Rosenthal is one of the most original voices of our time. In his narratives, the demarcations between fact, fancy, dream and song are by turns obliterated and renegotiated. The Legend of La Diosa is an incredibly beautiful love story. It is also a wry sendup of the worst of American poetry, the wretched ‘po biz.’ An unabashed affirmation of romantic love, this book bites American Poetry on its fat ass.” -Richard Katrovas “The Legend of La Diosa is a masterpiece. No one inflects their prose with the wild and absurd beauty of existence better than Chuck Rosenthal.”
— Elizabeth McKenzie, author of The Portable Veblen