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Reliquaria de R.A. Villanueva

Reliquaria: The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Autor R.A. Villanueva
en Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 2014
In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the vessel of memory, the vessel of the body. The dead act as witness, the living as chimera, and we learn that whatever the state of the body, this much rings true: every ode is an elegy; each elegy is always an ode.

 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780803296381
ISBN-10: 080329638X
Pagini: 82
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: Nebraska
Colecția University of Nebraska Press
Seria The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry

Locul publicării:United States

Notă biografică

R. A. Villanueva was born in New Jersey and lives in Brooklyn. His honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry and fellowships from Kundiman and the Asian American Literary Review. His writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he teaches at New York University.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments

Sacrum

1
Swarm
Life Drawing
These Bodies Lacking Parts
Telemachy
Like when passing graveyards
Fish Heads
In Memory of Xiong Huang
Aftermaths
God Particles

2
All Souls’ Day
Despedida
Sacramental
Socorro
Blessing the Animals
Confluences
Traps
On Transfiguration
Divination

3
Antipodal
In the dead of winter we
Ballast
As the river crests, mud-rich with forgotten things
Drifting toward the bottom, Jacques Piccard recalls the sky
Corpus
Vanitas
What the bones tell us
Iconoclasts
Invocation
1. Davenport, Iowa
2. Holofernes, to Judith at the strike
3. Medusa, at first sight of her face
4. On the sixth day, Ugolino thinks of his children
5. Isaac speaks of fingers
6. Feast of Three Kings, Jersey City
After this, Loving Kindness and Asanga flew
Mine will be a beautiful service

Notes

Recenzii

“The texture of R. A. Villanueva’s words stay in the mouth, shards of what is sacred, still is sacred: linguistic memento mori, if you will, that preserve and keep alive. Take your time with this glorious collection. Breathe in: ‘black eggs,’ ‘pomade,’ ‘concertina wire,’ ‘wreathed in gauze,’ and ‘Nakalimutan mo na ako. You have already forgotten me.’ I dare say you will not forget these remains that Villanueva has saved for us.”—Kimiko Hahn, author of Toxic Flora 

“These vivid and deeply lived poems question ‘every delicate gift we have thrown away.’ Villanueva searches the world for the divine and—gorgeous poem by poem—he finds it.”—Idra Novey, author of Exit, Civilian

“R. A. Villanueva reminds us that poetry is a space haunted by history, so we try ‘to name ghosts, to face them, dark as they are.’ He musters an impressive courage to take up the task. And we’re rewarded not just by Villanueva’s immense thrill for language but by his ability to fuse the body’s fact with the body’s mystery. This is a terrific debut.”—Patrick Rosal, author of Boneshepherds

 

“Reliquaria convokes a public hymn that genuflects in the presence of the world’s lucent crumbs and fragments. Villanueva’s elegant argument with, within, and beyond Roman Catholicism infuses this collection with a classical urgency.”—G. C. Waldrep, author of Archicembalo
 

“In precise yet lush language, these poems move so easily between the sacred and the quotidian, between past and present, and from lyric longing to physical satisfaction that it is startling to realize how much ground each poem covers, and how natural these transitions, at heart, truly are. . . . Reading his poems, I am delighted by the clarity and sinuousness of [Villanueva's] writing, by the force of his belief that the materiality of the world shares something with the beauty of words.”—Paisley Rekdal, author of Animal Eye
 

“Villanueva’s poetry is unabashedly sinewy, and uncannily, the more sinewy, the more soulful. Indeed, somehow he seems to straddle the divide between the visceral and the ethereal, and up there, where the air is crisp and clean and bracing, he is sovereign. So, no need any longer to go asking what’s the matter, for the poems in this volume, quite simply, are.”—Lawrence Weschler, author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder