Sightseer in this killing city / Eugene Gloria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gloria, Eugene, author.

Series:

Penguin poets

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry.

American poetry.

Filipino Americans--Poetry.

Filipino Americans.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

vii, 96 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Penguin Books, 2019.

Summary:

"Eugene Gloria's fourth collection of poetry captures the surreal and unreal feelings of the present. Through the voice of Nacirema, the central persona of the collection, who is a Filipina American woman with an ambiguous sexual identity, we are introduced to a character who chooses mystery and inhabits landscapes fraught with brutality and beauty. Flawed like America, Nacirema embodies ideas of wanderlust and self-discovery. In poems that recount her journey, Gloria invokes the spirit of 1970s soul music and of jazz, blending the urban lament of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane with the idiom of Stevie Wonder and Fela Kuti. Sightseer in This Killing City argues for grace and perseverance in these strange times"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

[Saudade]

Implicit Body p. 3

The Pall of a Past World p. 5

Zones of Contact p. 7

Apron p. 10

Liner Notes for Monk p. 11

Nighthawks Oceania p. 12

The Monk's Tale p. 13

The War on Drugs p. 14

The Shape Of p. 16

[A Walled City of Psalms]

Thirteen Dreams and One Duterte p. 19

Why They Bees That Way p. 22

The Maid p. 24

The Holler p. 25

King Lear p. 27

In Languedoc p. 28

Settling on a Bed in the Goon Republic p. 30

The Suitcase p. 31

My Phantom Escort, Pier Paolo Pasolini p. 33

In the Andes p. 34

[And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea-Lord Byron]

Sightseer in This Killing City p. 37

Nurse Nacirema p. 39

The Handsome Face of Tatlonghari p. 41

Ave Nacirema p. 43

Like the Spars of a Sailing Ship p. 45

Seamstress to the Band p. 46

The War on Drugs p. 48

Ne Me Quitte Pas p. 49

A Mutiny of Flowers p. 50

My Sad Economist on the Nature of Things p. 51

[The Afterlife]

Alfonso Street p. 55

On the Death March He Survived p. 57

On the Sorrowful Father Standing. And Falling. p. 60

Stone p. 62

Ghost Car p. 64

To the Wife, an Ode p. 66

The Boy Lazarus p. 68

Shall We Meet at the Little Lambs? p. 70

A Psalm for Beauty and Violence p. 72

Yo-Yo Boy p. 73

[All-American Alien]

Salt Song p. 77

All-American Alien Boy p. 79

On the Guttural Song of Machines p. 81

Failure p. 83

Salt p. 84

My Lanky, Landlocked So-and-So p. 85

Frontier Psychiatry p. 86

Ode p. 88

Baby American p. 90.

Other Format:

Online version: Gloria, Eugene. Sightseer in this killing city.

ISBN:

9780143133841

0143133845

OCLC:

1052402229