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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Guidebooks for the dead
  title info:
    title: Poems. Selections
  name:
    name part: Cruz, Cynthia
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Poetry.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 62 pages ; 23 cm
  abstract: "A slide show in poems documenting the ruin wrought by war and inequality on those who defy the status quo. In Guidebooks for the Dead, Cynthia Cruz returns to a familiar literary landscape in which a cast of extraordinary women struggle to create amidst violence, addiction and poverty. For Marguerite Duras, evoked here in a collage of poems, the process of renaming herself is a "Quiet death," a renewal she envisions as vital to her evolution. In "Duras (The Flock)," she is "high priestess" to an imagined assemblage of women writers for whom the word is sustenance and weapon, "tiny pills or bullets, each one packed with memory, packed with a multitude of meaning." Joining them is the book's speaker, an "I" who steps forward to declare her rightful place among "these ladies with smeared lipstick and torn hosiery . . . this parade of wrong voices." Guidebooks for the Dead is both homage to these women and a manifesto for how to survive in a world that seeks to silence those who resist"--
  note: Cynthia Cruz.
  note: Poetry browsing collection: gift of Eleanor Weinbaum family.
  subject:
    topic: Dead
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Women authors
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
    genre: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
  subject:
    topic: Dead
  subject:
    topic: Women authors
  classification: PS3603.R893 A6 2020
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9781945588440
  identifier: 1945588446
  identifier: 2019031740
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 190723
    record change date: 20200811140202.0
    record identifier: in00004135947
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng