Father / genocide / Margo Tamez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tamez, Margo, author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

151 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Brooklyn, New York : Turtle Point Press, [2021]

Summary:

"On the night before he "walked on," Margo Tamez's father recorded two questions onto a cassette tape: Where did all the good men go? Where did they go? Two decades later, Tamez reconstructs her father's struggle to be a man under American domination, tracing the settler erasure, denial, and genocide that he and preceding generations experienced. She reclaims stolen territory in the felt and known history of colonial Texas through Ndé Dene [Lipan Apache] place, memory, and poetics of resistance. I was raised up in American violence, Tamez writes, and I have to explore all of its possibilities ... Her poetry brings out those possibilities by timebending, with a poetic form Tamez calls Indigenous fusionism-Indigenous futurism, a union of pastpresent, bodyknowing, intertext, bent tradition, landguage, and familial blood-knowing, Father Genocide reveals why impunity on the Texas border is the key to understanding American identity violence. Her lightning poetry strikes the nested seeds and unburies the truth of these bitter lands"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Herstory

Time bending in El Calaboz | The dungeon

Push

While counting steel posts, homeland is tracked, I embody penitentiary philosophies

How Lipans received the horse

Enemy Slayer teaches the first horse laws to Lipans

Father

Shika'eehn | Fractal memories 7018 Glendora

Cassette | October 15, 1996

Unburying his archive

Brecksville, Ohio

Waiting | Journey

The waiting room is an archive

|||| Go sit down and wait until you're called ||||

Bendingtimeplace

Where did all the good men go?

Black men in the VA recognized your fractured | Indian | Invisibility |

Black men could say the obvious

Cowbird receives an unexpected horse song

|||| Of |||| Things |||| Said |||| and |||| Unsaid ||||

It's dangerous to type the issues you make me think about

Ruins as archive and lodges where knowledge sits

Of things in silence

Of archival silences and power exercised through archives

Horse carries the fourth arrow for Lipan woman

Good | Men Things that happen

Oral herstory

Creation story

Family reunion fragmented knowledge

Yamoria's laws

Oral tradition

When We Went To War

When we went to war

Peace treaty teachings by Shash Hastin Isdzan (Great Mother Bear)

Indian war herstory

Low-intensity conflict ICC Docket 22

Prior Proceedings | Docket 22

Findings of Fact | Docket 22

Dad, you are on my genocide map

When a Lipan woman refuses extinction she disrupts anthropological genocide

Flavia

Premont

1937

Outside water

My father's father, Premont, 1938

American | Fatherlands

Zero sum: family history

Roosters

Ethnographic Tamaulipas

Konlijih | to the river

Puehpi socobi

Great-grandfather's ancestral knowledge transfer

Robert Kleberg orders a concentration camp, erasure

The wall is not the wall

Kleberg posits extra-legal martial law to address complexity and scale

Opportunity

Even the blood-soaked dirt I breathes a small breath

| Horse

Horse people

Father | Genocide

Maria von Bliicher's Corpus Christi

Barbed wire

Concordances: re-thinking Blood Meridian as American genocide literary porn

Chertoff

Post | Memory

Rivered rememberer

Father | shell, stump fever dream

On the move bending time [Enemy Slayer]

A reluctant witness [Enemy Slayer]

Star people

Time | Bending

Message to my father who went to live with the End of the World People

You were a universe being born

Loss tightens her hands around my larynx

A lightning bolt I see up ahead

Dayaada baa'injuuli | Native superstition

Hypocrites and the Monster Slayer

Baby graves dagoye'ee (it is difficult)

Dagoghe'e (hard time)

Da'aandi'aa (it is up to you)

Do eighteen-foot gulag cement and steel walls contain?

Post | Survivor

What's Coming

Under the crease of sky

Bending | the word | with my father

Our memories met briefly inside a circle

At the entombment

My father stays earthbound

Night will color a dream real different

Dream #27 Gowa shimaa [my mother's house]

Father replays the funeral in Dream #28

My father's nickname tl'ena 'ai si'a | moonlight luna

What's coming

What's still coming

My father wants a ceremony because the funeral wasn't helpful

Dream: He re-emplaces to a gokal nadekleshen nigusdzaan

Walled In

Walled in by history, we stay alive, we remain, nonetheless.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781933527048

1933527048

OCLC:

1250434529

Publisher Number:

99988783914