R. A. Villanueva

Reliquaria (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the vessel of memory, the vessel of the body. The dead act as witness, the living as chimera, and we learn that whatever the state of the body, this much rings true: every ode is an elegy; each elegy is always an ode.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803276505
• Artikelnr.: 41329099

Autorenporträt

R. A. Villanueva was born in New Jersey and lives in Brooklyn. His honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry and fellowships from Kundiman and the Asian American Literary Review. His writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he teaches at New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Sacrum
1
Swarm
Life Drawing
These Bodies Lacking Parts
Telemachy
Like when passing graveyards
Fish Heads
In Memory of Xiong Huang
Aftermaths
God Particles
2
All Souls’ Day
Despedida
Sacramental
Socorro
Blessing the Animals
Confluences
Traps
On Transfiguration
Divination
3
Antipodal
In the dead of winter we
Ballast
As the river crests, mud-rich with forgotten things
Drifting toward the bottom, Jacques Piccard recalls the sky
Corpus
Vanitas
What the bones tell us
Iconoclasts
Invocation
1. Davenport, Iowa
2. Holofernes, to Judith at the strike
3. Medusa, at first sight of her face
4. On the sixth day, Ugolino thinks of his children
5. Isaac speaks of fingers
6. Feast of Three Kings, Jersey City
After this, Loving Kindness and Asanga flew
Mine will be a beautiful service
Notes