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- ISBN
- 9780268010478
- Book Title
- Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying
- Book Series
- Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Ser.
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Women Authors, General, Subjects & Themes / Family, American / Hispanic American
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 4.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 84 Pages
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Filled with the nuanced beauty and complexity of the everyday--a pot of beans, a goat carcass, embroidered linens, a grandfather's cancer-- A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying journeys through the inherited fear of creation and destruction. The histories of South Texas and its people unfold in Laurie Ann Guerrero's stirring language, including the dehumanization of men and its consequences on women and children. Guerrero's tongue becomes a palpable border, occupying those liminal spaces that both unite and divide, inviting readers to consider that which is known and unknown: the body. Guerrero explores not just the right, but the ability to speak and fight for oneself, one's children, one's community--in poems that testify how, too often, we fail to see the power reflected in the mirror.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-10
0268010471
ISBN-13
9780268010478
eBay Product ID (ePID)
160053296
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Women Authors, General, Subjects & Themes / Family, American / Hispanic American
Publication Year
2013
Book Series
Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Ser.
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
84 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
4.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Ps3607.U463a6 2013
Reviews
" . . . Guerrero's poems locate the life-giving power of verbal expression in the mouths of disenfranchised speakers. . . . Centered as it is around hard-working women, Guerrero's collection resists definition by class and color, even sex. For when she writes of womanhood, the variables of motherhood and marital status force us to see her speakers in their most vulnerable light. Yet these verses of germination and carrying, of labor and production, deliver us to a place of potent ferocity . . ." --Booklist Online, Guerrero has always written pointedly with a sharp pen and a sharp knife always at the ready. In her first full-length collection, these dazzling, edgy, irascible poems lean into their sweet natural bristling air, stitching and stretching image to image. This is the singing blue glory of language at its best., " A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying is populated by these daughters, women who defy and trouble long-held assumptions about, and expectations of, motherhood and maternal behavior: here, mothers take lovers, make war, cause damage--'make carnage of [their] own mouth[s].' And they also write daring poems that break with polite and romanticized representations of femininity, situating the woman as the source of her own volition, a daunting force to be reckoned with." -- Los Angeles Review of Books, "In poems crafted with tremendous skill, Laurie Ann Guerrero's A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying explores, so often, the ways in which the colonized or poor or brown have been brutalized, and their stories written by the conquerors. But the wonderful discovery one makes while reading what's often painful and heartbreaking is that Guerrero's the one telling us. In other words, the re-writing is begun . This is a powerful, necessary book." --Ross Gay, author of Bringing the Shovel Down, "Guerrero has always written pointedly with a sharp pen and a sharp knife always at the ready. In her first full-length collection, these dazzling, edgy, irascible poems lean into their sweet natural bristling air, stitching and stretching image to image. This is the singing blue glory of language at its best." --Nikky Finney, author of Head Off & Split , winner of The National Book Award, "Guerrero writes in a language of the body, visceral, almost unbearably vivid, the language of a poet who knows how to work with her hands. In an age when so many poems say nothing, these poems miss nothing . . . attention must be paid to such a poet now and for years to come." --Martín Espada, author of The Trouble Ball, "Guerrero's poems weave in and out of light and shadow, good and evil, the sublime and the sorrowful, creating a tapestry that is wholly Texas. . . . A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying evokes the mysteries of a people--Mexicans and Texas Mexicans alike--who have the power to astonish with their fortitude, or disillusion with their inexperience; the beauty of Guerrero's collection is its ability to do both so fluidly." -- Texas Books in Review, Guerrero's poems weave in and out of light and shadow, good and evil, the sublime and the sorrowful, creating a tapestry that is wholly Texas. . . . A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying evokes the mysteries of a people--Mexicans and Texas Mexicans alike--who have the power to astonish with their fortitude, or disillusion with their inexperience; the beauty of Guerrero's collection is its ability to do both so fluidly. --Texas Books in Review|9780268010478|
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2012-046210
Dewey Decimal
811.6
Dewey Edition
23
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