Stepmotherland : poems / Darrel Alejandro Holnes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holnes, Darrel Alejandro, 1987- author.

Series:

Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

United States.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (105 pages)

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes meditates on migration, and the American dream. He reminds us that Blackness is everywhere, persevering against erasure and violence. This collection is a satisfying and essential second book that leaves us excited for all that is to come from this poet." --Yesenia Montilla author of The Pink Box.

Contents:

Foreigner. When my mother gives up her American dream to marry my father

Praise song for my mutilated world

Scenes from Operation Just Cause

20 de Dicembre, 1989: when the U.S. invades Panamá

When the narcos kidnap JuanFe

The art of diplomacy

Bread pudding Grandmamma

Poder

Immigrante. Tú

Conception

How to dream about a woman

ba-by

Pietà by Michelangelo: marble, 1499

OTM or Other Than Mexican

Mirror woman

Marvelous sugar baby

Citzen. Cristo Negro de Portobelo

Af-ri-can-Am-er-i-can-ize

African Klan suit #2

Ferguson, USA

Link

Ode to my Father, the Captain

Breaking & entering

Angelitos Negros

Patriot. The down-low messiahs

Power bottom

Vinyl

I always promised I would never do drag

Arroz con pollo

Joseph on knowledge in the biblical sense

All legs lead to Naomi Campbell

Rihanna & child

Naturalization

Black parade

Homecoming.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Andres Montoya Poetry Prize

Other Format:

Print version: Holnes, Darrel Alejandro Stepmotherland

ISBN:

0-268-20217-6

OCLC:

1293241914