Albert Abonado, Mahogany L. Browne

Field Guide for Accidents

Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

SELECTED BY MAHOGANY L. BROWNE FOR THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES An irreverent poetry collection that wrestles with questions of family, mortality, cultural history, and identity from the Filipinx-American experience "you showed him your teeth, you dared him to look into your mouth to see the metal bands straightening your jaw into an American smile."—from Field Guide for Accidents Born in the United States to Filipino immigrants, poet Albert Abonado is no stranger to the language of periphery. Neither wholly “American” nor Filipino, Field Guide for Accidents’s speakers are defined by what they are not: not white enough to be born in America, not Asian enough to feel at home in the Philippines. Abonado’s poetry illuminates the strange and surreal in domestic routine, suturing wounds of love, grief, and the contradiction of being Filipinx-American, two identities bound with a hyphen that resists negation. What results is a growing exposure to a world mired in paradox. The poems in Field Guide for Accidents experiment with the constraints of the poetic line, shaping forms that exhume what tend to haunt us in the silence. In Field Guide for Accidents, memory becomes augmented with the imaginary; suspicion collides with superstition, while spirituality crosses paths with scientific fact. A mother returns to her son as a boat. A stew is prepared with blood yet masked as chocolate. The living eat with the dead in memories built like houses. Mythic, bloodthirsty creatures in Pinoy folklore prey on an exhausted poet. Research conducted in hindsight provides new avenues to explore regret. For many third-culture kids of the Asian-American diaspora, there is no such thing as a success story for “fitting in.” What matters more is finding where you belong. Spooning images from hand to mouth, the poems in Field Guide for Accidents struggle with what it means to consume and be consumed by American culture.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Beacon Press
• Seitenzahl: 104
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 120g
• ISBN-13: 9780807020517
• ISBN-10: 0807020516
• Artikelnr.: 69964032

Autorenporträt

Albert Abonado

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Mahogany L. Browne
I
From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit
Mano
She Carries My Lola into the Bathroom
Ode to Kamayan
The God I Know Eats with Its Hands
The History of Prayer
How to Remove a Spike
To Prepare the Bitter Melon
Rival
For All of My Unborrowed and Unspent Joys
II
Punchline
Remedy
Witness
You Are Supposed to Cut a Mango into Squares
Outer Banks
Recollection
Instead of the Mastectomy
You Must Wait 15 Minutes Before You Try Again
An Honest Mistake
III
Field Guide for Accidents
IV
The Bears Never Talk About Winter
Flood Warning
Every Wilderness Is a Province of Teeth
A Colony of Ants Attack My Wrist and I Just Let Them
Wolf House
Landscape with Car Wreck and Father
The Trees Are Motherfuckers
Summer Solstice with Motownphilly as Soundtrack
Sympathy for the Conspiracy Theorist
V
About the Horses
Advice for Using Blood in a Poem
Poem as Manananggal Always Looks for the Moon
Poem as Aswang with Tasting Notes
Poem as Kapre Who Rolls Cigars Among the Pines
Poem as Aswang Who Passes Chickens from One Mouth to the Next
On the History of the Line
A Pile of Poems Is Called a Negation
Notes
Acknowledgments