For want of water : and other poems / Sasha Pimentel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pimentel, Sasha, author.

Series:

National poetry series

The national poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xv, 116 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, [2017]

Summary:

"Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction and sexual violence, grief and loss"--Back cover.

Contents:

I

If I Die in Juárez 3

13 Ways of Knowing Her 4

Our First Year 8

My Father's Family Fasts the Slaughter to Feast the Arrival of His Bride 11

The Kiss 12

Late September, When the Heat Releases 13

Meditations on Living in the Desert 15

Admit Impediments. Love Is Not Love 17

Continental Split 18

At a Party 19

II

Panic 23

Gedankenexperiments 24

A Loaf of Bread 26

After Dinner 27

The Eyes Open to a Cry 28

In Their Dark Habits 30

Kastanyas 31

How to Care for a Man, Withdrawing 32

In Step 33

Because "Some Women Are 36

Displaced Women's Blues 38

You Say You Can't Sleep 40

Thai Massage 43

Bodies, and Other Natural Disasters 46

For Want of Water 49

III Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose

Autopsy 53

How we come to smoke 54

High, high, high 55

Autopsy, Juárez 56

Tale, two cities 57

High and low 58

Crack rock, a hard place 59

Autopsy, us 60

Drug war 61

How we love to score / (buying glass pipes at the barrio store) 62

IV

Sea Change 65

At the Symphony: 7 Things I Wish I'd Told You 66

[Rules for Behaving on an Airplane] & Simultaneous Monologue on Your Separate Grief 68

Last Photograph of My Mother Laughing 70

When in Solitude, the Surprise of Morning 71

Leaving the University Gym 72

Tuesday Night in Montparnasse 74

Moment in Storm 76

Marking. Connecting: Between Going and Stopping,- 78

Old Beds and Hollywood 80

School Terrorist Exercise, 2005 83

V

What Is Broken 89

Before Dawn 90

We're Really Not Okay 94

Golden Shovel: at the Lake's Shore, I Sit with His Sister, Resting 96

Grave, ma non troppo tratto 97

Safely Watching a Solar Eclipse with Kuya 102

Orison 103

While My Lover Rests 104

Touched By Dusk, We Know Better Ourselves 105.

Other Format:

Online version: Pimentel, Sasha author. For want of water, and other poems.

ISBN:

9780807027851

0807027855

OCLC:

970034049