From unincorporated territory [guma']
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| Rating | : | 4.70 (833 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1890650919 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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“The journeys that we are meant to take through Perez’s texts are just as much through time and history as they are across oceans in the Pacific.”—Michael Lujan, Transmotion
Through a variety of poetic forms, the poet highlights the importance of origins and customs amidst new American cultures and terrains. The poet memorializes 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.. Craig Santos Perez, a native Chamoru from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (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. Furthermore, this book draws attention to, and protests, the violent currents of colonialism and militarism currently threatening Guåhan, a “strategic” US territory since 1898
An exciting text resisting erasure, (re)creating History (intercontextually/multi-lingually) Jennifer Dick Writing about N. NourbeSe Philip's book "Zong!", Nathanial Mackey asks whether reordering history's “linguistic protocols might undo or redo history itself.” Even, as Juliana Spahr added in her blurb for Zong!, “find an answer [to Historical trauma…by] telling and not telling,&hellip. "Perez does a good job of making the reader feel sympathetic towards his" according to EV. Guma’ covers a topic that is very personal and relatable to many cultures that have been subjected to imperialism. Perez does a good job of making the reader feel sympathetic towards his home country, Guam. At the same time, I found it hard to feel emotion. He discusses a topic that, unfortunately, has