A brief history of fruit / Kimberly Quiogue Andrews.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Andrews, Kimberly Quiogue, 1983- author.

Series:

Akron series in poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

99 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, [2020]

Summary:

"In Kimberly Quiogue Andrews's award-winning full-length debut, A Brief History of Fruit, we are shuttled between the United States and the Philippines in the search for a sense of geographical and racial belonging. Driven by a restless need to interrogate the familial, environmental, and political forces that shape the self, these poems are both sensual and cerebral: full of "the beautiful science," as she puts it, of "naming: trees of one thing, then another, then yet another." Colonization, class dynamics, an abiding loneliness, and a place's titular fruit-tiny Filipino limes, the frozen berries of rural America-all serve as focal markers in a book that insists that we hold life's whole fragrant pollination in our hands and look directly at it, bruises and all. Throughout, these searching, fiercely intelligent and formally virtuosic poems offer us a vital new perspective on biracial identity and the meaning of home, one that asks us again and again: "what does it mean, really, to live in a country?""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

I.

Still Life with Metalworking Shop p. 5

Ars Persona p. 6

n: Shield, or Shell Covering p. 7

Some Unsettling Connections p. 8

In which I climb a tree, as a child, and find my father's initials about 16 feet off the ground p. 9

How to Get Into a Poem p. 10

On Labor p. 11

Ode to the Letter Q p. 13

Love's Varietal p. 14

In a different sky, on a different night p. 15

Apostrophe p. 16

II.

Did you hear about that video camera that fell out of a plane and landed in a pig trough p. 19

A map, two points, the line between them p. 21

The Bath p. 24

The Arborist p. 26

Other Deluges p. 28

How to Read Whitewater in the Mid-Atlantic Region p. 30

Acquired Taste p. 31

The More Interesting Story p. 32

The Hunting Camp p. 33

III.

As in Nowhere, No-One p. 37

The Minnow p. 38

In which the photograph has very little to do with the memory associated with it p. 40

In the Morning, in the Evening p. 42

Burial at Sea p. 44

The Result of an Overabundance of Scenery p. 46

H.O. Andrews & Sons p. 47

Notes on the Spine, Pt. 1 p. 48

Notes on the Spine, Pt. 2 p. 50

IV.

A Brief History of Fruit p. 53

The Collapse p. 54

The Anglo-Saxons Move to Warmer Climes p. 58

The Dawn, Suffused with Roosters p. 59

Your Princess Is in Another Castle p. 60

Some Mirages of the Heat-Addled p. 61

No one needs another poem about the Second World War p. 62

Jesus in a Prom Gown p. 64

In which voluntourism p. 66

President Trump, thank you for calling, and good evening, it is night over here p. 68

Pastoral p. 70

V.

Next of Kin p. 73

The Garden p. 74

In the Evening, in the Morning p. 76

Your Inbox. Love, Manila p. 78

Elegy for One Who Died in the Decade It Took to Write This Poem About Dying p. 80

1 Contemplating a Career in Ornithology, age 12 p. 82

Fugue in A and D p. 84

On Cold, On Green p. 85

Pagmamano p. 87

In which I learn that I will not be moving back to Pennsylvania p. 89

In which there are several half-Asian folks at a faculty meeting p. 90

The Discrete Mathematics of a Mixed-Race Anxiety Sufferer p. 91

What We Have p. 93

Mango Mouth p. 94.

ISBN:

9781629221618

1629221619

OCLC:

1124771369