The Inheritance of Haunting - Couverture souple

Restrepo Rhodes, Heidi Andrea

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0268105383 ISBN 13 : 9780268105389

Editeur : University of Notre Dame Press, 2019

Synopsis

Winner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, The Inheritance of Haunting, by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war, and survival.

The driving forces behind Rhodes's work include a decolonizing ethos; a queer sensibility that extends beyond sexual and gender identities to include a politics of deviance; errantry; ramshackled bodies; and forms of loving and living that persist in their wild difference. Invoking individual and collective ghosts inherited across diverse geographies, this collection queers the space between past, present, and future. In these poems, haunting is a kind of memory weaving that can bestow a freedom from the attenuations of the so-called American dream, which, according to Rhodes, is a nightmare of assimilation, conquest, and genocide. How love unfolds is also a Big Bang emergence into life--a way to, again and again, cut the future open, open up the opening, undertake it, begin.

These poems are written for immigrants, queer and transgender people of color, women, Latin Americans, diasporic communities, and the many impacted by war.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes is a queer, disabled, brown/Colombian poet, scholar, and cultural worker. Her poetry collection The Inheritance of Haunting explores intergenerational memory and postcolonial trauma. Most recently, she was a spring 2021 Mellon Arts Fellow at Yale's Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Her work has been published in Poetry, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Nat. Brut, Foglifter, and Waxwing, among other places.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0268105383
• ISBN 13: 9780268105389
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 108
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• Personne responsable: non disponible