Reverse requiem : poems / Ina Cariño.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cariño, Ina, Author.

Language:

English

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

55 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Gloucester, ME : Alice James Books, [2026]

Summary:

"Soulful and elegiac poems composed in Cariño's signature, saturated lines: their music and imagery is entrancingly deep and powerful. Often greeting us as a beckoning or invocation, the poems maintain a strong desire for physicality, for the rooting of oneself, to provide or be provided with a sense of tangible vitality and/or grounding. There's a desire for "someone to nourish." The integration of exterior landscape, the physical elements of life and culture that reflect and allow the speaker to understand and probe the interior landscape makes these poems incredibly personal, while the act of this connection reaches out to the reader on a more universal level. These poems delve into personal history, identity, lineage, roots, legacy: "pulse upon familial pulse." And there's identity, loss of identity because of colonization/whitewashing. There's the speaker connecting with who they are and who they (or their family) might have been if circumstances had been different. The internal off rhyme and music is mesmerizing, the relationship between the two often serving as a device for investigating language and its associative nature, as a way of exploring the associations/dissociations of the self, of one's identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version Cariño, Ina, 1988- Reverse requiem

ISBN:

9781949944778

1949944778

OCLC:

1527869906