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Banana [ ]

Banana [ ]

Ceballos, Paul Hlava

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 082296693X
ISBN13: 9780822966937
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Sep 27 2022
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.75 Depth: 8.79
Language: English
Winner, 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Finalist, 2022 NBCC Award for Poetry Winner, 2023 Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award Finalist, 2023 Washington State Book Award in Poetry

The poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos's debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits of migrants, family, and personal memories. At the heart of the book is a long poem that traces the history of bananas in Latin America using only found text from sources such as history books, declassified CIA documents, and commercials. The book includes collage, Ecuadorian decimas, a sonnet series in the voices of Incan royalty at the moment of colonization, and a long poem interspersed with photos and the author's mother's bilingual idioms. Traversing language and borders, history and story, traditional and invented forms, this book guides us beyond survival to love.

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