Title:
The gravedigger's archaeology : poems / William Archila.
Author:
Archila, William, author.
Publication Information:
Pasadena, CA : Red Hen Press, [2015]
Call Number:
POETRY ARCHILA 2015
Abstract:
"The Gravedigger's Archaeology writes the urban landscape of the US immigrant, a figure constantly reminded of the nameless and the dispossessed who struggle back home in Central America. Moving between past and present, these poems record a vigil of loss left by the emptiness of tedious excavation?both psychological and spiritual. They travel the fragments and vestiges of a war, the return to one's homeland or place of childhood, unearthing the landscapes of a jazz riff, myth, or work of art. In a lyrical, sometimes elegiac language, the poems map the complex territory of an exile who understands the answers lie in the ground"-- Provided by publisher.
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9781597093712
Physical Description:
104 pages ; 23 cm.
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Contents:
The Gravedigger: The Gravedigger's archaeology -- In the pit: In the pit -- Of soldiers & cane toads -- Grease -- Cities -- The line -- The night John Lennon died -- Nicaragua in black & white -- Some other boy -- Clandestine territory -- Caffeine -- Vigil -- After mass -- Atlacatl -- Near downtown -- Alfa -- Dismantling the sea -- What I learned from a war too small to notice -- Self-portrait with train -- A night watchman: At the gold room with Orpheus -- Outhouse -- Small thumb of a poet -- Cumbia -- Labor -- Dog days -- Self-portrait as Hermes -- After reading Hopkins -- Goya's execution -- Still life with fish -- Stray Study with horse -- Georgraphy lesson -- Shells don Santiago -- The night watchman -- Lake Guija -- Threee minutes with Mingus -- Dig: Dig.
Uniform Title:
Poems. Selections
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