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Like a solid to a shadow / Janice Lobo Sapiago.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sapiago, Janice Lobo, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families.
- Family secrets.
- Fathers and daughters--Poetry.
- Fathers and daughters.
- Grief--Poetry.
- Grief.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (107 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nightboat Books, [2017]
- Summary:
- A reissue of the Santa Clara County poet laureate's lauded second book that deals with translation, grief, and reflection of lineage and identity. like a solid to a shadow is a documentary poetry collection about grieving, fatherlessness, and the limitations of language. Sapigao finds her deceased father's love 'letters' to her mother: cassette tapes recorded in Illokano, a language of which she has imperfect knowledge. The book moves through Sapigao's process of translating and transcribing the tapes; playing with, learning, and unlearning the Ilokano and English languages. This book then launches from the tapes to ask "what can we really know?" when it comes to family lineages and personal histories. Through family trees, photos, and mapping, Sapigao articulates, distorts, and heals her knowledge of the man who is her deceased father.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraphs
- Translator's Note
- The Background
- The Text
- The Concept
- Being Reading
- Afterword
- A Language of Trying
- Thank You
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sapiago, Janice Lobo like a solid to a shadow
- ISBN:
- 9781643621647
- OCLC:
- 1373988389
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