Spectator / Kara Candito.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Candito, Kara.

Series:

Agha Shahid Ali prize in poetry.

Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections

Language:

English

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (81 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, [Utah] : The University of Utah Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize Although it ends with a marriage, Kara Candito's second poetry collection is anything but a comedy.At the book's center is the struggle of a U.S.citizen and a Mexican citizen to find a common space and language in their relationship while navigating the U.S.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""I.""; ""Initiation #5: Lorca""; ""A Short Genealogy of Power Tools""; ""Creation Myth, 1979 (Reappropriated)""; ""Family Elegy in a Late Style of Fire""; ""Upon Seeing Simon & Garfunkellive at the Coliseum""; ""A Genealogy of the Father""; ""II.""; ""Ars Poetica #9 (The After-hours Version)""; ""Epithalamium Intercepted at the Border""; ""Bestiary""; ""Lorca's Last Letter to Dalí, August 20, 1936""; ""Lorca Recalls His First Love""; ""Lorca Addresses His Sister Before Her Wedding""; ""By the Numbers""; ""Camino Real""; ""V's Dream on the Plane from Mexico City to Chicago""

""III.""""Ten Years Apprenticeship in the Republic of Carnivorous Love""; ""Dying in an Earthquake in Mexico City""; ""Dear Forgiveness,""; ""Deathbed""; ""Elevator: A Love Story""; ""Holding Pattern, Lifted""; ""IV.""; ""Ars Amatoria: So You Want to Marry a Foreign National""; ""Ars Poetica #40 (The Worst Case Scenario Version)""; ""There Are Lots of Guns Here-""; ""Monologue During a Blackout""; ""Epithalamium with Swan Song""; ""Notes""; ""Acknowledgments""

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-60781-352-1

OCLC:

903957510