Field guide for accidents : poems /
Born in the United States to Filipino immigrants, Albert Abonado is no stranger to the language of periphery. The poems in Field Guide for Accidents obsess over hidden histories and family knowledge, revealing a cultural experience mired in paradox. A mother returns to her son as a boat. The living...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Beacon Press,
[2024].
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| Series: | National poetry series.
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| Summary: | Born in the United States to Filipino immigrants, Albert Abonado is no stranger to the language of periphery. The poems in Field Guide for Accidents obsess over hidden histories and family knowledge, revealing a cultural experience mired in paradox. A mother returns to her son as a boat. The living eat with the dead in memories shaped like houses. Bloodthirsty creatures from Philippine folklore prey on an exhausted poet. Rife with interrogations of belonging, Field Guide for Accidents is a deeply moving homage to family, mortality and the contradiction of being Asian-American, two identities bound by a hyphen that resists negation. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 89 pages ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780807020517 0807020516 |