Catrachos : poems / Roy G. Guzmán.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Guzmán, Roy G., author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

102 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2020]

Summary:

The breathtaking debut collection from one of America's most inventive new poetsA name for the people of Honduras, Catrachos is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching, riveting poems, Roy G. Guzmán reaches across borders--between life and death and between countries-invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age story, Catrachos finds its own religion in fantastic figures such as the X-Men, pop singers, and the "Queerodactyl," which is imagined in a series of poems as a dinosaur sashaying in the shadow of an oncoming comet, insistent on surviving extinction. With exceptional energy, humor, and inventiveness, Guzmán's debut is a devastating display of lyrical and moral complexity--an introduction to an immediately captivating, urgently needed voice.

Contents:

*

Queerodactyl p. 5

Día de los Muertos p. 6

Queerodactyl p. 8

Atonement in the Key of Padre p. 10

Our Lady of Suyapa p. 11

My Great-Grandmother's Egg Thief p. 13

Queerodactyl p. 15

Preparations for a Trip Home p. 16

Midwestern Skulls for the Broken Latino p. 19

**

The American Dream p. 23

Allapattah Branch Library p. 25

Queerodactyl p. 27

Arthur's Spelling Trubble p. 29

Queerodactyl p. 31

Marrow p. 32

Queerodactyl p. 33

Amor Eterno p. 34

In Service of Silence p. 37

Marrow p. 45

When a Person Says Go Back to Your Country p. 46

***

Restored Mural for Orlando p. 49

Queerodactyl p. 52

Quinceañera p. 53

Queerodactyl p. 54

After the Tempest p. 55

Finding Logic in a Crushed Head p. 56

Jurisdiction p. 58

Those Seventy-Two Bodies Belong to Us p. 59

Queerodactyl p. 61

****

Self-Portrait According to George W. Bush p. 65

*****

Marero p. 79

Queerodactyl p. 81

Marrow p. 82

Queerodactyl p. 84

Queerodactyl p. 85

Payday Loan Phenomenology p. 86

Queerodactyl p. 91.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-97).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

ISBN:

9781644450239

1644450232

OCLC:

1119997758

Publisher Number:

99984319431