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Brother Bullet: Poems: Sun Tracks , cartea 84

Autor Casandra López
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 feb 2019
Speaking to both a personal and collective loss, in Brother Bullet Casandra López confronts her relationships with violence, grief, guilt, and ultimately, endurance. Revisiting the memory and lasting consequences of her brother’s murder, López traces the course of the bullet—its trajectory, impact, wreckage—in lyrical narrative poems that are haunting and raw with emotion, yet tender and alive in revelations of light.

Drawing on migratory experiences, López transports the reader to the Inland Empire, Baja California, New Mexico, and Arizona to create a frame for memory, filled with imagery, through the cyclical but changing essence of sorrow. This is paralleled with surrounding environments, our sense of belonging—on her family’s porch, or in her grandfather’s orange grove, or in the darkest desert. López’s landscapes are geographical markers and borders, connecting shared experiences and memories.

Brother Bullet tugs and pulls, drawing us into a consciousness—a story—we all bear.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816538522
ISBN-10: 0816538522
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: University of Arizona Press
Colecția University of Arizona Press
Seria Sun Tracks


Notă biografică

Casandra López is a Chicana, Cahuilla, Luiseño, and Tongva writer raised in Southern California. A CantoMundo Fellow, López is a founding editor of the literary journal, As/Us: A Space for Women of the World and teaches at Northwest Indian College.

Cuprins

BULLET BREAKS
Where Bullet Breaks: San Bernardino 2010
10th St Porch: Investigation
Father Made Us
I Could Have
Remember This
The Wreckage
I Am Sorry for Your Loss
Brother and I: Two Ghost Fish
At the House: Evidence
Those Who Speak to Trees Remember
The Sweet in the Bitter: Inland Empire
One Year Memorial
Midnight Memorial 2011
Flight

BULLET TEACHES What Bullet Teaches
Open the Door: Eyewitness
Dear Brain Bullet
The First 48
An Unknown
What Body Can Bear
For Those Who Dream of the Dead
Lake Days: San Bernardino Mountains
Piñon Man
The Darkest of Deserts

NEW LANGUAGE
A New Language
Refugio Beach
Your Name: A Diamond Stolen from Our Mouths
Where Cement Splits
This Distance: Santa Fe
Eclipse: Albuquerque 2012
Suddenly It Comes And
Biological
In This Desert
Continent of Desire

REMAINS What Remains
Someone
Sun Receding into Earth
Sometimes
Mouthed Memory
Bone Map
Peeled Fruit
When I Was a Young Girl
Sister Song
Second Son, Bright Star
4th of July: San Bernardino 2015
Some Boys
For Those Who Learn to Sew Sorrow
Oranges Are Not Indigenous

Acknowledgments

Recenzii

Brother Bullet, Casandra López’s debut, is born from tragedy: a brother’s unsolved murder. Yet the mystery this collection probes is not the how or why of the crime, it is the how and why of life after unspeakable loss. Emblematic of the relentlessness in this collection, the word “brother” appears on almost every page, used as adjective, as proper noun, as mourning chant. In addition to telling a story of personal loss, López, who identifies Brother’s ethnicity as “Cahuilla, Luiseño,” invites the reader to consider the socio-political context in which brown boys are murdered, the ways in which the speaker’s brother’s death indicts our nation.”—RHINO Poetry

“‘After Bullet night / I promised to never turn away from the rib of the left behind, / the long scope of loss.’ These poems are the not-turning-away; they are the courage of the self to speak as witness to the layered traumas of personal, familial, and historical grief. With brave and candid precision, López’s poetry does not just translate the experience of a brother’s murder—an impossible language—into language but scores onto the page trauma’s delicate interior. López’s dexterity with form, line, and rhythm allows the telling of the unspeakable story. For ‘our bodies that are always fumbling / at loss,’ these poems answer with clarity, compassion, and shape—they are poems of this place, the place of survival.”—Jennifer Elise Foerster, author of Bright Raft in the Afterweather

“This collection is riveting. This voice is essential. I highly recommend this vital work to you.”—Luis Alberto Urrea, author of The House of Broken Angels

Descriere

Speaking to both a personal and collective loss, in Brother Bullet Casandra López confronts her relationships with violence, grief, trauma, guilt, and, ultimately, survival. Revisiting the memory and lasting consequences of her brother’s murder, López traces the course of the bullet—its trajectory, impact, wreckage—in poems that are paralyzing and raw with emotion, yet tender and alive in revelations of light.