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Rest / Margaree Little.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.I8758 A6 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Little, Margaree, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Seelctions
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Latin Americans.
- Human trafficking victims.
- Border crossing.
- United States.
- Border crossing--Poetry.
- Noncitizens--United States--Poetry.
- Noncitizens.
- Illegal immigration--United States--Poetry.
- Illegal immigration.
- Human trafficking victims--Poetry.
- Latin Americans--United States--Poetry.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 85 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Tribeca : Four Way Books, [2018]
- Summary:
- Rest is a vivid, powerful collection examining the human cost of crossing the border. In 2010, Margaree Little was working for a humanitarian mission near Tucson when, along with a group of volunteers, she found the unidentified body of a man, who a medical examiner would later estimate died at least six months before. This discovery serves as the jumping-off point to a stunning, elegiac series of poems commemorating an imagined, unknown life. Anchored by Little's keen eye and unsparing self-reflection, this collection asks us to examine how a single life can affect so many others.
- Contents:
- I
- The Visit 3
- Map 6
- The Calling 9
- What Was Missing 11
- Rest 13
- What Begins as a List of Things Lost to Him 15
- The Subjunctive 16
- Revision 18
- Vigil 20
- The Dead 22
- II List of Recovered Human Remains, Arizona-Mexico Border, 2009-2010
- The Orchard 28
- February 31
- The Mattress 31
- What Was Missing (2) 32
- Omission 34
- The Field 35
- Harvest 37
- Pace 39
- The Instrument Maker 40
- The Spring 42
- Return 43
- III List of Recovered Human Remains, 2009-2010, continued
- Rest (2) 50
- Remainder 52
- The Heron 53
- Using It 56
- The Familiar 58
- At Trustom Pond 60
- The Shirt 62
- The Spool 63
- The Studio 64
- Cairns 67
- Thanksgiving 69
- List of Recovered Human Remains, 2009-2010, continued.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781945588105
- 1945588101
- OCLC:
- 1001251056
- Publisher Number:
- 99980316261
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