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For Want of Water: And Other Poems by Sasha Pimentel: New
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Publication Date
- 2017-10-17
- Pages
- 136
- ISBN
- 9780807027851
- Book Title
- For Want of Water : and Other Poems
- Book Series
- National Poetry Ser.
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- American / Asian American, Women Authors, General, American / General
- Item Width
- 6.1 in
- Item Weight
- 7.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 136 Pages
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Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award-winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Ju rez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipina's life unravels as she tries to love an addict, the murders growing just a city--but the breadth of a country--away. This collection weaves the personal with recent history, the domestic with the tragic, asking how much "a body will hold," reaching from the border to the poet's own Philippines. These poems thirst in the desert, want for water, searching the brutal and tender territories between bodies, families, and nations.
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Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807027855
ISBN-13
9780807027851
eBay Product ID (ePID)
234230455
Product Key Features
Book Title
For Want of Water : and Other Poems
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
American / Asian American, Women Authors, General, American / General
Book Series
National Poetry Ser.
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
136 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Item Weight
7.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Series Volume Number
2
Lc Classification Number
Ps3616.I485a6 2017
Reviews
"In For Want of Water , Sasha Pimentel threads the complex and intricate geographies of lives across borders: Wyoming, Montparnasse, Saudi Arabia, Ilocos, Manila, but primarily El Paso and Ciudad Juarez in Mexico, where there have been more than forty-eight thousand documented fatalities and more than five thousand disappeared in relation to the drug trade. With an unstinting eye, Pimentel gathers in this book the disembodied, the lost and unhomed, the migrants at the border, the ones holding meth in their palms like 'crystal glittering,' the ones in the throes of withdrawal, border officials building electric walls, prisoners made to take off their clothes, the dead who have been machine-gunned at drug rehabilitation centers. In poems lit with premonition, though the maternal body is a 'womb of cold tile' and itself a map of previous domestication and violence, it is to the image of mother that the poet continually turns, because she was that first tensing bird or goat hoof rustle 'above mud, before harm.' As in the story of the boy who winds up dragging his dehydrated mother's body across the desert, what Pimentel enacts in these harrowing but beautiful poems is the persistence of longing--how even in our most separate, divided, complicit, guarded existences, we'll push toward that uneven line, that verge at the horizon where clouds promise to deliver rain like an absolution. The crossings Pimentel speaks of are perilous, but I am glad to have her as a guide, because she has the capacity for finding the smallest lights in the incinerated cities, shining through glass or the throats of pipes." --Luisa A. Igloria, author of Ode to the Heart Smaller Than a Pencil Eraser
Table of Content
Foreword by Gregory Pardlo I If I Die in Juárez 13 Ways of Knowing Her Our First Year My Father's Family Fasts the Slaughter to Feast the Arrival of His Bride The Kiss Late September, When the Heat Releases Meditations on Living in the Desert Admit Impediments. Love Is Not Love Continental Split At a Party II Panic Gedankenexperiments A Loaf of Bread After Dinner The Eyes Open to a Cry In Their Dark Habits Kastanyas How to Care for a Man, Withdrawing In Step Because "Some Women Are Displaced Women's Blues You Say You Can't Sleep Thai Massage Bodies, and Other Natural Disasters For Want of Water III Rose is a Rose is a Rose is a Rose Autopsy: How we come to smoke: High, high, high: Autopsy, Juárez: Tale, two cities: High and low: Crack rock, a hard place: Autopsy, us: Drug war: How we love to score / (buying glass pipes at the barrio store): IV Sea Change At the Symphony: 7 Things I Wish I'd Told You [ Rules for Behaving on an Airplane ] & Simultaneous Monologue on Your Separate Grief Last Photograph of My Mother Laughing When in Solitude, the Surprise of Morning Leaving the University Gym Tuesday Night in Montparnasse Moment in Storm Marking. Connecting: Between Going and Stopping,-- Old Beds and Hollywood School Terrorist Exercise, 2005 V What Is Broken Before Dawn We're Really Not Okay Golden Shovel: at the Lake's Shore, I Sit with His Sister, Resting Grave, ma non troppo tratto Safely Watching a Solar Eclipse with Kuya Orison While My Lover Rests Touched By Dusk, We Know Better Ourselves Lines I've Stolen, and Other Notes Credits and Acknowledgments
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-052722
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Dewey Edition
23
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