Water Guest

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Lake Tahoe: home of the Washoe Tribe, a shining blue jewel that crowns the Sierra Nevada, and a beloved American vacation destination made accessible by the transcontinental railroad built largely by Chinese laborers. This gorgeous location forms the site from which Caroline M. Mar’s stunning collection, Water Guest, attempts to reconcile issues of identity, ownership, and place. The poems wander through Mar’s attempts to locate herself geographically, genealogically, and etymologically. A direct ancestor was a railroad laborer; is that why her love for the land feels older than herself? Or is it the siren call of the deep, clear water?Raising questions of inheritance, the conundrum of land ownership, and the violence of history, Mar gives voice to the lost writing of Chinese laborers and silent communion to those of us still here—immigrant and Indigenous, settler and resister. This beautiful collection finds acceptance, if not resolution, through the questions themselves.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-01
Mått:178 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:454 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Wisconsin Poetry Series
Antal sidor:104
Förlag:University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN:9780299352646

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Caroline M. Mar is the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer and the author of Special Education and the chapbook Dream of the Lake. A high school health educator in her hometown of San Francisco, she is getting to know her new home of Oakland. A member of Rabble Collective, she has been granted residencies at Storyknife, Ragdale, and Hedgebrook, among others.

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Failed TranslationsDream of the LakeMythologyStage 1: Cold Shock / Threat No. 1 Loss of Breathing ControlStage 1: Cold Shock / Threat No. 2 Heart and Blood Pressure ProblemsStage 1: Cold Shock / Threat No. 3 Mental ProblemsWith a surface area of 191.6 square miles and a depth of 1,645 feet, Lake Tahoe is the largest and the second-deepest alpine lake in the United StatesNamingIntelligibleBurialsStage 2: Physical IncapacitationPortraits of the Ancestor1870 census; Truckee, CA: Ah John, male, 18; occupation: prostituteStage 3: HypothermiaS---- ValleyFire ControlStage 4: Circum-rescue CollapseCatalog of Writings Left by Chinese Railroad Laborers of the C.P.R.R.A CorrespondenceTragedyMercyGuest: First TranslationSwim Team Outer SpaceSong for Great-GrandfatherTieGuest: Second TranslationPropertyJohn ChinamanCelestialsGuest: Third TranslationCertaintyBeing Away from the LakeDistinctionsThe Ghost ShipSong for Great-Great-GrandfatherLake of the SkyAcknowledgmentsNotes