A catalog of future mercies : poems / Serena Chopra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chopra, Serena, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrant families--Poetry.

Immigrant families.

Generational trauma--Poetry.

Generational trauma.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

132 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, [2026]

Summary:

"In this luminous memoir-in-poems, Serena Chopra explores the complexities of mercy in an immigrant family haunted by generational violence. Drawing connections between the brutalized prairie beneath suburban lawns and the brutalized body seeking reclamation through sensuality, Chopra examines what it means to be a survivor descended from both survivors and perpetrators. Through divinatory poetics and cross-temporal storytelling, she parallels national histories of violence with the paradox of caretaking for a parent who has been both victim and abuser. And, in the specters of generational violence, Chopra invokes an imperative to stay present with lineages of trauma rather than slip into personal and cultural amnesia. A lyric woven in four parts, A Catalog of Future Mercies reimagines mercy as radical embodied witnessing, a form of resilience that refuses the tyranny of forgetting"-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Online version Chopra, Serena Catalog of future mercies

ISBN:

9781644453964

1644453967

OCLC:

1535701712