Day's Hard Edge

Poems

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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A radically open interrogation of queer Chicano identityIn his fourth poetry collection, JosÉ Antonio RodrÍguez investigates how one constructs a relationship to the self, to community, and to poetry itself. The Day's Hard Edge is composed of three sections, the first of which situates the reader in the speaker’s world, one marked by multiple forms of trauma. Here are the contours of the Texas/Mexico borderlands where the speaker’s initial sense of self and community emerges. The second section broadens in scope and considers the potential and limitations of poetry as a site for meaning-making. The third section brings the speaker to a new understanding of the poem as it relates to the transformative and destabilizing experience of trauma. Ultimately this book lays bare an individual and, in doing so, shows how poetry acts as a place of succor and vulnerability for one’s very identity. Together these poems explore what it means to be queer, immigrant, and Chicano.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 9 mm
Vikt:140 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:88
Förlag:Northwestern University Press
ISBN:9780810147256

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Jose Antonio Rodriguez is the author of the poetry collections This American Autopsy, Backlit Hour, and The Shallow End of Sleep and the memoir House Built on Ashes. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, and elsewhere. A Mexican immigrant and first-gen college graduate, he teaches writing at The University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.

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“I’ve long admired JosÉ Antonio RodrÍguez's writing, ever since Tia Chucha Press published his brilliant The Shallow End of Sleep. In this collection the intimate and hard truths of the borderlands surge with the singular revelatory rages of a queer brown man amidst the laments of a thousand forgotten souls. There is also love in the exquisite details, the surprising twists of language, the searing haunted lines.” —Luis J. RodrÍguez, founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and former Los Angeles Poet Laureate "There’s great darkness and pain within these pages, but also wonder and comfort." – Traci Brimhall, author of Come the Slumberless to the Land of Nod"JosÉ Antonio RodrÍguez has done it once again—given us a poetry collection that sings through pain and arrives at wisdom. The Day's Hard Edge takes us along borders, not only the Texas/Mexico borderlands of the poet’s childhood, but to the borders between the living and the dead, between trauma and healing, and between magic and poetry. In poem after poem, you’ll feel the urgency of witness and RodrÍguez’s expansion of verse, “one that transports you / To a corner of the soul you didn’t know was there.” —Denise Duhamel, author of Second Stories: Poems

Innehållsförteckning

1Not Even the StarsThe GiftBleatThe Ghosts in My RoomThe BoysTerrestrialPilgrimCrushed(number per day) x (number of school days per year) x (number of years) =5,400 or A Low Estimate of the Number of Times I Was Name-Called Between3rd and 8th GradesRock HudsonOne Day Walking Home from School2TenderBy the Vending MachineGlimpseThe End of the WorldElegy to ElegyThere Was a SentenceBoy in a BoxThe Last Time I Went to ChurchImmenseNightfallI Was Never Young (with You)FaceEvidenceWonderOde to the Sears Family PortraitFlailMercy3On Standing Before the Repurposed Warehouse in My HometownSometimesBorderlineSignalingWooden BollardsNeighborFocusThe BeginningA City without MirrorsOde to the Gold StarsIn the Presence of SunlightEvery Other ThresholdEntireShelterAcknowledgmentsAbout the Author