Migratory sound : poems
Publication Information
Fayetteville : The University of Arkansas, 2020.
Physical Description
xiii, 79 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary
"In its various terrains and habitats, Migratory Sound glances back to generational narratives of immigration, moving from south to north exploring seasonal field work and factory labor. By looking to ancestral narratives of Mexican American immigrants, the poems examine spatial and geographic boundaries and linguistic and mental intersections"--
Notes
With a preface by series editor Carolina Ebeid.
Contents
- Night
- Moment Where I Keep What I'd Wanted to Give
- Animalier: On Stasis
- Where the Field Retracted
- Etymology
- Of Small Spaces
- Migratory Sound
- Drawings of a Red-Billed Pigeon
- Correspondence
- Glimpse
- When Considering the Water
- Circuit
- To Make Beauty in Some Sense Imperishable
- Of Inheritance
- The Field as a Circle
- Respond to View
- On Balance
- Pastoral
- Clemency
- Moment to Moment
- Fertility
- Form
- Static
- On Remoteness
- Implied Surroundings
- Drawing of a Bear Walking
- Manifest
- Sleepwalk
- What Never Converges
- Hinge
- Lies About Horses
- Worn-Yard Games
- Seasons
- Numbers
- Against
- Honorable Wreckage
- Toward
- Forest
- Stairway
- Certain Noise
- Radiant
- Tint
- Clarities
- Collective
- Pattern Without Line
- What Is Your Grief
- To Watch
- Within Hands
- On Forgetting
- Without Vanishing
- Small Ghost
- Jaw in Grass
- About Oblivion
- Maps
- Openings
- What Do You See
- Resemblances
- Drawn Animals.