unMothered, unTongued : lyric essays / Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh ; selected by Chloé Cooper Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roripaugh, Lee Ann, author.

Contributor:

Cooper Jones, Chloé, 1983- editor.

Series:

The Sue William Silverman Prize for creative nonfiction

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roripaugh, Lee Ann.

Japanese Americans--West (U.S.)--Biography.

Japanese Americans.

Poets, American--Biography.

Poets, American.

Identity (Philosophical concept).

American essays--21st century.

American essays.

identity.

Physical Description:

226 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2025]

Summary:

"UnMothered, unTongued is a collection of lyric essays written from the liminal space of the in-between. These essays thread themselves around questions of language, landscape, and identity. This is a collection that weaves together intersectionalities and intertextualities. In this book, Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, a biracial LGBTQIA+ Nisei who was born and raised in Laramie, Wyoming, to a non-native-English-speaking Issei mother, considers not only the tensions in the rifts between intersectional identities (biracial Nisei, LGBTQIA+); but also the tensions between marginalized identities and the landscapes and cultures of the American West; the tensions between non-native, second, erased and/or forgotten languages; and the tensions between those who abuse and those who survive. These rifts, intersections, and fractures, while frequently a source of violence and immense grief are also, at the same time, a source of illumination and clarity as well. The essays in this collection are written almost entirely in hybrid/lyric forms-oftentimes braided, oftentimes, patchworked, oftentimes segmented-reflecting some of the fractured complexities and intersections of Horikoshi Roripaugh's own hybrid identities"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Motherlands and mother tongues : five reflections on language and landscape

Sixteen views of the Bourgeaus : an homage (minus twenty) to Hokusai's thirty-six views of Mount Fuji

Ghost-busting in Wickenburg : a resurrection of sorts

Derby dreams

Loop-de-loop

Hall of mirrors

Scourge

Writing down the bones

Swarm

Home( r ) sweet Home( r )

Meditations on an emergency

The wind phone

Anhedonia in the anthropocene

Homeward bound

Five loaded handguns

Leftovers

Dear America / dear motherland : an essay

in Fractures

The unbearable privilege of breathing

Dream of a two-headed turtle

Lost in translation

Austere and lonely offices

My sister's keeper : an essay of unbraiding

The atomic age

Re-membering : an archaeological catalogue

Drive(n)

Left hands of darkness

Falling

Colony collapse

Thanksgiving

Dreaming in the fog

Unshelled.

ISBN:

9780820374413

0820374415

OCLC:

1511532435