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Lessons on expulsion : poems / Erika L. Sánchez.
Van Pelt Library PS3619.A517 A6 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sánchez, Erika L., author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Poetry.
- Women.
- Immigrants.
- Immigrants--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 73 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "What is life but a cross / over rotten water?" Poet, novelist, and essayist Erika L. Sǹchez?s powerful debut poetry collection explores what it means to live on both sides of the border -- the border between countries, languages, despair and possibility, and the living and the dead. Sǹchez tells her own story as the daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants and as part of a family steeped in faith, work, grief, and expectations. The poems confront sex, shame, race, and an America roiling with xenophobia, violence, and laws of suspicion and suppression. With candor and urgency, and with the unblinking eyes of a journalist, Sǹchez roves from the individual life into the lives of sex workers, narco-traffickers, factory laborers, artists, and lovers. What emerges is a powerful, multifaceted portrait of survival. Lessons on Expulsion is the first book by a vibrant, essential new writer now breaking into the national literary landscape.
- Contents:
- Quinceañera 3
- Spring 5
- Narco 6
- La Cueva 7
- Amá 8
- Letter from New York 10
- Self-Portrait 12
- Las Pulgas 14
- The Loop 17
- Lavapiés 18
- Portrait of a Wetback 19
- Lessons on Expulsion 23
- Hija de la Chingada 25
- On the Eve of the Tepehuán Revolt 28
- To You on My Birthday 30
- Baptism 32
- Crossing 33
- Saudade 37
- Orchid 38
- The Poet at Fifteen 40
- Kindness 42
- Kingdom of Debt 45
- Love Story 47
- A Woman Runs on the First Day of Spring 49
- Girl 53
- Juárez 55
- Self-Portrait 58
- Forty-Three 59
- Vieques 61
- Poem of My Humiliations 62
- Circles 64
- Hyacinth 66
- Capital 68
- Donkey Poem 70
- Six Months after Contemplating Suicide 72.
- ISBN:
- 9781555977788
- 1555977782
- OCLC:
- 957021738
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