Tripas : poems / by Brandon Som.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Som, Brandon, author.

Series:

Georgia review books

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

93 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2023]

Summary:

"With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som participates in a practice of mem(oir), placing each poem's ear toward a confluence of history, labor, and languages, while also enacting a kind of "telephone" between cultures. Invested in the circuitry and circuitous routes of migration and labor, Som's lyricism weaves together the narratives of his transnational communities, bringing to light what is overshadowed in the reckless transit of global capitalism and imagining a world otherwise-one attuned to the echo in the hecho, the oracle in the órale."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. Code Switches

Chino

Raspadas

My Tata, My Li Po

Overdub

Close Reading

Fuchi

Inventory

II. Twin Plant

Sirenas Del Aire, 1958

Shainadas

Cypher

Qingming

Tattoo

Diagram

Half

III. Antenna

Resistors

My Father's Perm

Gramophone

Super Mercado Lee Hou

Transmitter

IV. Novena.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

0820363502

9780820363509

OCLC:

1350521896