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1 online resource |
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Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Contents -- I -- English as a Second Language -- The Last Town Before the Mojave -- Shelf Life -- How Hunger Was Invented -- Earthquake Weather -- The Mass Death of Mountains -- The Last Town Before the Mojave -- Welcome to the Show -- Overtime -- How to Cook a Wolf -- Ode to the Scallop -- It's Dark, but Not Late -- Come, Little Hunger -- Flashover -- Empty Stadiums -- II -- The Last Town Before the Mojave -- Mami, Tell Me That Story Again -- Self-Portrait as Papi -- Altarpiece -- What Do You Remember about the Earth? -- Boys of Color |
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13 More American Landscapes, a View-Master Reel -- Desire Paths -- Querida América -- The Last Town Before the Mojave -- Hymn for the Last Town -- Procession of Flies -- III -- Abandonarium -- Ritual for Crossing -- Ritual for the Campesino -- Ritual for the Descent -- Ritual for the Shore -- Ritual for Erasure -- Ritual for the Implosion -- Ritual for Extraction -- Ritual for Aisle 9 -- Ritual for the Fig Wasp -- Ritual for Infrastructure -- Ritual for the Beloved -- Ritual for the Circuit -- Ritual for the Latchkeys -- Ritual for Ruins -- Ritual for the Duende -- Notes -- Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
Querida offers a place-based lyrical meditation on the poet's immigrant parents, collective memory, language, and family in the San Fernando region of Los Angeles, California. Through a constellation of interweaving persona poems, confessional reflections, imagistic portraits of people and places, and decolonial poetic rituals-braided with a crown of sonnets-a choir of speakers navigate the fraught inheritance of memory frayed by the generational trauma of migration, coloniality, and the exploitative labor of late-stage capitalism. Swaying between maximalist and carnivalesque textual decadence and sparse, brutalist, bilingual inquiries into language as yet another exploitative and extractive tool for control, these poems honor familial and community wisdom as the only way to survive the steadily destabilizing Capitalocene |
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Winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2024) |
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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American.
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Hispanic American.
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Places.
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| Genre/Form |
poetry.
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Poetry.
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Poésie.
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Electronic books
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822991625 |
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0822991624 |
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