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Curb / Divya Victor.
Van Pelt Library PS3622.I285 A6 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Victor, Divya, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- East Indian Americans--Crimes against--United States--Poetry.
- East Indian Americans.
- Immigrants--Crimes against--United States--Poetry.
- Immigrants.
- Artists' books--Colorado--Colorado Springs--Specimens--Poetry.
- Artists' books.
- American poetry--21st century.
- American poetry.
- Immigrants--Crimes against.
- Colorado--Colorado Springs.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Specimens.
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nightboat Books, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence, but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. Curb witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark “other” by reclaiming the throbbing, many-tongued, vermillion heart of kith."--Publisher's description.
- Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States.
- Contents:
- Settlement p. 3
- Hedges p. 5
- Plots p. 15
- Blood / Soil p. 31
- Petitions (For An Alien Relative) p. 37
- Locution / Location p. 47
- Threshold p. 51
- Milestones p. 60
- Landscapes (As Portraits) p. 79
- More Curbs p. 89
- Pavement p. 111
- Frequency (Alka's Testimony) p. 115
- Estates: Last Offices Concerning the Curbs of the Body p. 129
- Notes & Objects Cited p. 139.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-157).
- ISBN:
- 1643620703
- 9781643620701
- OCLC:
- 1196246085
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