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A Catalog of Future Mercies: Poems

A Catalog of Future Mercies: Poems

Chopra, Serena

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General Poetry

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 1644453967
ISBN13: 9781644453964
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.81 Depth: 8.91
Language: English

In ghost stories and family history, this lyrical memoir explores mercy as resistance to generational violence

In this luminous memoir-in-poems, Serena Chopra explores the complexities of mercy in an immigrant family haunted by generational violence. Drawing connections between the brutalized prairie beneath suburban lawns and the brutalized body seeking reclamation through sensuality, Chopra examines what it means to be a survivor descended from both survivors and perpetrators. Through divinatory poetics and cross-temporal storytelling, she parallels national histories of violence with the paradox of caretaking for a parent who has been both victim and abuser. And, in the specters of generational violence, Chopra invokes an imperative to stay present with lineages of trauma rather than slip into personal and cultural amnesia. A lyric woven in four parts, A Catalog of Future Mercies reimagines mercy as radical embodied witnessing, a form of resilience that refuses the tyranny of forgetting.

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