Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 100 g
Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series
Buch, Englisch, 104 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 100 g
Reihe: Wisconsin Poetry Series
ISBN: 978-0-299-31994-6
Verlag: University of Wisconsin Press
Charting a journey through schoolyards and laundromats, suburban gardens and rice paddies, yoga studios and rural highways, Michelle Brittan Rosado crafts poems that blend elegy and praise. In settings from California to Malaysian Borneo, and the wide Pacific between them, she explores themes of coming-of-age, mixed-race identity, diaspora, and cultural inheritance. With empathy for the generations past, she questions how we might navigate our history to find a way through it, still holding on to the ones we love. Like an ocean wave, these poems recede and return, with gratitude for the quotidian and for beauty found even in fragments.
bring me back
to the in-between
where my breath
has always lived,
without containment,
like two legs pointing
toward the ocean, or these arms
reaching into sky
—excerpt from ""Ode to the Double 'L'"" Michelle Brittan Rosado. All rights reserved.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
- Acknowledgments
- Ode to the Double “L”
- I
- Western History
- Pastoral with Restless Searchlight
- How to Use Microsoft Paint to Alter a Birth Certificate
- Only Child
- Ambivalence
- Dementia
- Across the Street from Foxboro Elementary School, an Inmate Escapes California State Prison Solano
- Vanishing Ship
- The Elements Have Learned to Speak
- Theory on Falling into a Reef
- Customs
- Between
- Poem for My Twin
- Our Bodies Were Once the Color of Our Masks
- The Hotel Eden
- Asking about My First Name
- Debt
- Poem for My Mother
- Rootless
- My Father’s Work
- The Sky Will Look White
- Pantun
- Poem for My Maternal Grandfather
- Ritual
- Photograph Taken by My Paternal Grandmother on Her Honeymoon, 1944
- Elegy without Translation
- My Dead Live in Two Rooms
- II
- The Dissolution Paperwork Asks if I Need to Restore My Name
- Late Summer
- Sea Shanty for the Divorced
- The Numerology of Us
- Old Knives
- The Tower District
- This Poem Wants to Be a House
- Fresno Laundromat without Air-Conditioning in Late July
- Contemporary Artifacts
- Portrait of His Ex-Lover at a Yoga Studio, Downtown Fresno
- Incident between Two Exits
- Why Can’t It Be Tenderness
- The Sweetest Exile Is the One You Choose
- A Name Made of Asterisks
- Mistaken Ode
- Love after Dentistry
- On Waking When You’re Already Leaving
- While You Are Gone
- An anchor in the shape of an ampersand
- Visitations with Unmarried Self
- Glaucoma Test in the Post-Racial Era
- Breaking a Sugar Bowl the Morning after a Lunar Eclipse
- Lullaby in Which It Becomes Impossible Not to Talk about Race
- Notes
