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I was a bell : poems / M. Soledad Caballero.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caballero, M. Soledad, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--History and criticism.
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (87 pages)
- Edition:
- First Edition
- Place of Publication:
- Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "In this collection, Caballero imagines how memory frames and reshapes the present, how memory illuminates and limits the stories of ourselves, and how, despite the passage of time, primal moments in the past are the ghosts and echoes of our present. These poems interweave an early childhood lived in another country and in another language with experiences of immigration and family histories in the United States. They create connections between a child's naïve perspective of dictatorship and an adult perspective informed by bodily illness and political knowledge. Ultimately, Caballero traces a lineage of memory, exploring how present moments unearth the past that ripples through them. This collection does not reconcile the past and the present. Instead, these poems remind us that how we ask questions about ourselves, our histories, and our bodies is what creates our identities, our traumas, and our future hopes and possibilities"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- What You Are Doing Is Living
- Flight
- I Was a Bell
- Pacific Dreams
- Rebellion
- The Generals of South America
- In the Poison Time There Is Love
- Someday I Will Visit Hawk Mountain
- After the Election: A Father Speaks to His Son
- Immigrant Confession
- Flight Plan
- The Order of Things
- Relics
- Marriage
- Twelve-Hour Shift
- You Have to Leave Me Twice
- A Love Story
- My Yellow Heart
- Confessions
- Cells
- Rooted
- Author's Note
- Biographical Note.
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Dedication
- Bird Girl
- Losing Spanish
- Birds of Prey
- Immigration Office, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1985
- What Remains Buried
- Ode to My Hair
- The Spell
- Alien Magic
- La Doncella
- Before Intersectionality
- To the Boys Who Bully My Nephew in Sixth Grade
- My English Decades
- Memory Spaces
- Waiting for the Horsemen
- To Document
- When You Go Out to Walk the Dog
- In the Time of the Patriarch
- Villa Grimaldi
- What It Takes
- Forerunner
- Waiting for the Horsemen.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award, 2019.
- ISBN:
- 9781597094900
- 1597094900
- 9781597094962
- 159709496X
- OCLC:
- 1243906481
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