Banana [ ] / Paul Hlava Ceballos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hlava Ceballos, Paul, author.

Series:

Pitt poetry series.

Pitt Poetry Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Banana trade--Poetry.

Banana trade.

Agricultural laborers--Latin America--Poetry.

Agricultural laborers.

Hispanic Americans--Poetry.

Hispanic Americans.

Latin America.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, PA : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022]

Summary:

The poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos's debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits of migrants, family, and personal memories. At the heart of the book is a long poem that traces the history of bananas in Latin America using only found text from sources such as history books, declassified CIA documents, and commercials. The book includes collage, Ecuadorian decimas, a sonnet series in the voices of Incan royalty at the moment of colonization, and a long poem interspersed with photos and the author's mother's bilingual idioms. Traversing language and borders, history and story, traditional and invented forms, this book guides us beyond survival to love.

Contents:

1. Elegido

2. Banana [ ]: A History of the Americas

3. Irma.

Notes:

"Winner of The Donald Hall Prize for Poetry."

Includes bibliographical references.

Donald Hall Prize for Poetry, 2021

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hlava Ceballos, Paul Banana [ ]

ISBN:

9780822989233

OCLC:

1346591655