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Stepmotherland

Author : Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268202141
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Stepmotherland written by Darrel Alejandro Holnes and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stepmotherland is a tour-de-force debut collection about coming of age, coming out, and coming to America. Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s first full-length collection, is filled with poems that chronicle and question identity, family, and allegiance. This Central American love song is in constant motion as it takes us on a lyrical and sometimes narrative journey from Panamá to the USA and beyond. The driving force behind Holnes’s work is a pursuit for a new home, and as he searches, he takes the reader on a wild ride through the most pressing political issues of our time and the most intimate and transformative personal experiences of his life. Exploring a complex range of emotions, this collection is a celebration of the discovery of America, the discovery of self, and the ways they may be one and the same. Holnes’s poems experiment with macaronic language, literary forms, and prosody. In their inventiveness, they create a new tradition that blurs the borders between poetry, visual art, and dramatic text. The new legacy he creates is one with significant reverence for the past, which informs a central desire of immigrants and native-born citizens alike: the desire for a better life. Stepmotherland documents an artist’s evolution into manhood and heralds the arrival of a stunning new poetic voice.

My Kill Adore Him

Author : Paul Martínez Pompa
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268087202
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book My Kill Adore Him written by Paul Martínez Pompa and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Kill Adore Him is a collection of poems from Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize-winner Paul Martínez Pompa. With a unique, independent voice, Martínez Pompa interrogates masculinity, race, language, consumerism, and cultural identity in poems that honor los olvidados, the forgotten ones, who range from the usual suspects brutalized by police to factory workers poisoned by their environment, from the victim of a homophobic beating in the boys’ bathroom to the body of Juan Doe at the Cook County Coroner’s Office. Some of the poems rely on somber, at times brutal, imagery to articulate a political stance while others use sarcasm and irony to deconstruct political stances themselves.

A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying

Author : Laurie Ann Guerrero
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268080739
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying written by Laurie Ann Guerrero and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday—a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather’s cancer—A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction. The histories of South Texas and its people unfold in Laurie Ann Guerrero’s stirring language, including the dehumanization of men and its consequences on women and children. Guerrero’s tongue becomes a palpable border, occupying those liminal spaces that both unite and divide, inviting readers to consider that which is known and unknown: the body. Guerrero explores not just the right, but the ability to speak and fight for oneself, one's children, one's community—in poems that testify how, too often, we fail to see the power reflected in the mirror.

Underdays

Author : Martin Ott
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268088691
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Underdays written by Martin Ott and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from pop culture, politics, art, and social media, Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration and driving force behind Underdays. Underdays is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death, love/war, the personal/the political. Ott combines global concerns with personal ones, in conversation between poems or within them, to find meaning in his search for what drives us to love and hate each other. Within many of the poems, a second voice, expressed in italic, hints at an opposing force “under” the surface, or multiple voices in conversation with his older and younger selves—his Underdays—to chart a path forward. What results is a poetic heteroglossia expressing the richness of a complex world.

Unaccompanied

Author : Javier Zamora
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
ISBN 13 : 1619321777
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Unaccompanied written by Javier Zamora and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Bestselling Author of Solito "Every line resonates with a wind that crosses oceans."—Jamaal May "Zamora's work is real life turned into myth and myth made real life." —Glappitnova Javier Zamora was nine years old when he traveled unaccompanied 4,000 miles, across multiple borders, from El Salvador to the United States to be reunited with his parents. This dramatic and hope-filled poetry debut humanizes the highly charged and polarizing rhetoric of border-crossing; assesses borderland politics, race, and immigration on a profoundly personal level; and simultaneously remembers and imagines a birth country that's been left behind. Through an unflinching gaze, plainspoken diction, and a combination of Spanish and English, Unaccompanied crosses rugged terrain where families are lost and reunited, coyotes lead migrants astray, and "the thin white man let us drink from a hose / while pointing his shotgun." From "Let Me Try Again": He knew we weren't Mexican. He must've remembered his family coming over the border, or the border coming over them, because he drove us to the border and told us next time, rest at least five days, don't trust anyone calling themselves coyotes, bring more tortillas, sardines, Alhambra. He knew we would try again. And again—like everyone does. Javier Zamora was born in El Salvador and immigrated to the United States at the age of nine. He earned a BA at UC-Berkeley, an MFA at New York University, and is a 2016–2018 Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.

Migrant Psalms

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780810143586
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (435 download)

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Download or read book Migrant Psalms written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tropicalia

Author : Emma Trelles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268042363
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book Tropicalia written by Emma Trelles and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Tropicalia is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles about the city of Miami.

The Girls in My Town

Author : Angela Morales
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 082635663X
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Girls in My Town written by Angela Morales and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiographical essays in The Girls in My Town create an unforgettable portrait of a family in Los Angeles. Reaching back to her grandmother’s childhood and navigating through her own girlhood and on to the present, Angela Morales contemplates moments of loss and longing, truth and beauty, motherhood and daughterhood. She writes about her parents’ appliance store and how she escaped from it, the bowling alley that provided refuge, and the strange and beautiful things she sees while riding her bike in the early mornings. She remembers fighting for equal rights for girls as a sixth grader, calling the cops when her parents fought, and listening with her mother to Helen Reddy’s “I Am Woman,” the soundtrack of her parents’ divorce. Poignant, serious, and funny, Morales’s book is both a coming-of-age story and an exploration of how a writer discovers her voice.

Walls

Author : Kenneth A. McClane
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814321348
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Walls written by Kenneth A. McClane and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lives of the Sleepers

Author : Ned Balbo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Lives of the Sleepers written by Ned Balbo and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ned Balbo's Sandeen Prize-winning collection of poetry seeks a voice for contemporary and historical figures as they face the ecstasy and grief of love. In these assured and powerful poems, Balbo's confidence in lyric, narrative, and dramatic forms is always evident: lovers whirl in Dante's circle, saints suffer for their faith, and characters from Hitchcock films are caught in traps of their own making. With energy and insight, Balbo gives us Alice Liddell's last word on Lewis Carroll's infatuation, a Victorian heroine who uncovers a wax museum's hidden crimes, and a bestiary where courtship rituals are both savage and redemptive. Lives of the Sleepers explores the connections of men and women across the centuries, and interrogates those patterns that always reassert themselves. These sleepers are joined in a dialogue that transcends any one era. The joy of their connection and the grief of their separation also reflect the history of our own age.

White King and Red Queen

Author : Daniel Johnson
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547133379
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book White King and Red Queen written by Daniel Johnson and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Johnson--journalist, scholar, and chess enthusiast--is the perfect guide to one of history's most remarkable periods, when chess matches were front-page news and captured the world's imagination.

Times Beach

Author : John Shoptaw
Publisher : Notre Dame Review Book Prize
ISBN 13 : 9780268017859
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Times Beach written by John Shoptaw and published by Notre Dame Review Book Prize. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems in Times Beach evoke the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and how the river continually shapes the lives around it.

Furious Dusk

Author : David Campos
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268077339
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Furious Dusk written by David Campos and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk, David Campos’s winning collection, as "a work whose five parts trace a son’s efforts—only partially successful—to fulfill his father’s expectations and—perhaps even more difficult—understand those expectations enough to forgive them.” The poet's reflections are catalyzed by learning of his father’s impending death, which, in turn, forces him to examine his father’s expectations against his own evolving concept of what it means to be a man. The poems' speaker sifts through his past to find the speckles of memory that highlight the pressures to fit the mold of masculinity forged both by the Mexican culture of his father and the American culture he inhabits. The problematic norms of both rip the speaker in two directions as he recounts his father’s severe parenting, as he explores the inability to father a child, as he witnesses human suffering, as he overeats and confronts the effects on his body, and, finally, as he realizes what it means to transcend these expectations. The speaker’s epiphany frees him to reject masculine stereotypes and allows him to see himself simply as a human being. That realization, in turn, enables the speaker to see his father not only as “father,” “husband,” and “man,” but as a citizen of Earth. Through Campos’s bold imagery and accessible language and themes, he memorably adds to the continuing conversation of the effects of cultural expectations on the children of immigrant parents.

Magnificent Errors

Author : Sheryl Luna
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268201838
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Magnificent Errors written by Sheryl Luna and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magnificent Errors is a collection of poems that shows how mental health challenges can elicit beauty, resiliency, and hope. In 2005, Sheryl Luna burst onto the poetry scene with Pity the Drowned Horses, which quickly became a classic of border and Southwest literature with its major point of reference in and around El Paso, Texas. Now with the poems in Magnificent Errors, Luna’s third collection and winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry, Luna turns her gaze toward people living on the margins—whether it be cultural, socioeconomic, psychological, or personal—and celebrates their ability to recover and thrive. Luna reveals that individuals who suffer and experience injustice are often lovely and awe inspiring. Her poems reflect on immigrants in a detention camp, a meth addict, a homeless individual, and someone on food stamps. She explores the voices of people with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or PTSD, poets, visual artists, and people living in a mental health community setting. The author’s own journey to recovery from childhood abuse and mental illness also illuminates how healing is possible. The poems in Magnificent Errors are lyrical, narrative, and often highly personal, exploring what it means to be the “other” and how to cope with difference and illness. They venerate characters who overcome difficulties including ostracism and degradation. People who live outside of the mainstream in poverty are survivors, and showing their experience teaches us compassion and kindness. Ideas of art, culture, and recovery flow throughout the poems, exploring artistic creativity as a means of redemption. With language that is fresh and surprising, Sheryl Luna shares these remarkable poems that bring a reader into the experiences of marginalization and offer hope that grace and restoration do indeed follow.

Morning Knowledge

Author : Kevin Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268088088
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Morning Knowledge written by Kevin Hart and published by . This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Morning Knowledge, Kevin Hart grieves the passing of his father, while continuing his unique interlacing of the spiritual and the sensuous. A book of elegies and love poems, prayers and lullabies, a book in which poems sing about a museum of shadows and about rats and afternoons, all wrapped in quatrains, Morning Knowledge is a major book by a poet read and loved throughout the world.

We Are Owed.

Author : Ariana Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781735352763
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book We Are Owed. written by Ariana Brown and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We Are Owed. is the debut poetry collection of Ariana Brown, exploring Black relationality in Mexican and Mexican American spaces. Through poems about the author's childhood in Texas and a trip to Mexico as an adult, Brown interrogates the accepted origin stories of Mexican identity. We Are Owed asks the reader to develop a Black consciousness by rejecting U.S., Chicano, and Mexican nationalism and confronting anti-Black erasure and empire-building. As Brown searches for other Black kin in the same spaces through which she moves, her experiences of Blackness are placed in conversation with the histories of formerly enslaved Africans in Texas and Mexico. Esteban Dorantes, Gaspar Yanga, and the author's Black family members and friends populate the book as a protective and guiding force, building the "we" evoked in the title and linking Brown to all other African-descended peoples living in what Saidiya Hartman calls "the afterlife of slavery."

Modern Arabic Poetry

Author : Waed Athamneh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268101541
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Modern Arabic Poetry written by Waed Athamneh and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- modern arabic poetry -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 The Politics and Poetics of the Modern Arab World -- CHAPTER 2 From Iltizām to Metapoetry: ʻAbd al-Wahhāb al-Bayātī -- CHAPTER 3 From Iltizām to the Arab Uprising: Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī Ḥijāzī -- CHAPTER 4 From Militant Iltizām to Humanist: Maḥmūd Darwīsh -- Conclusion: The Poets and Their Vocation in the Modern World -- Appendix: Interview with Aḥmad ʻAbd al-Muʻṭī Ḥijāzī -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index