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from unincorporated territory [guma’]

Craig Santos Pérez

4.30/5 (109 ratings)

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Winner of the American Book Award (2015)
Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), has lived for two decades away from his homeland. This new collection maps the emotional and geographic cartographies of his various migrations, departures, and arrivals. Through a variety of poetic forms, the poet highlights the importance of origins and customs amidst new American cultures and terrains. Furthermore, this book draws attention to, and protests, the violent currents of colonialism and militarism currently threatening Guahan, a strategic US territory since 1898. The poetmemorializes what his people have lost and insists that we must protect and defend what we have left of home.
This collection will engage those interested in Pacific literature, multicultural, indigenous poetry, mixed-genre, multilingual experiments, ecopoetics, and those who want to explore intersections between poetry, politics, history, and culture."

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from unincorporated territory [guma’]

Craig Santos Pérez

4.30/5 (109 ratings)

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Winner of the American Book Award (2015)
Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guahan (Guam), has lived for two decades away from his homeland. This new collection maps the emotional and geographic cartographies of his various migrations, departures, and arrivals. Through a variety of poetic forms, the poet highlights the importance of origins and customs amidst new American cultures and terrains. Furthermore, this book draws attention to, and protests, the violent currents of colonialism and militarism currently threatening Guahan, a strategic US territory since 1898. The poetmemorializes what his people have lost and insists that we must protect and defend what we have left of home.
This collection will engage those interested in Pacific literature, multicultural, indigenous poetry, mixed-genre, multilingual experiments, ecopoetics, and those who want to explore intersections between poetry, politics, history, and culture."

Format:

Pages:: pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: 1

Language:

ISBN10:: 1890650919

ISBN13:: 9781890650919

kindle Asin:: 1890650919

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