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Tula: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781571314888
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: Nov 1 2016
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.40
Language: English
Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for poem.
Prismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago's debut collection of poems--selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry--begins with one word and transforms it, in a dazzling sleight of hand, into a multivalent symbol for the immigrant experience. Tula: Santiago reveals to readers a distant land devastated by war. Tula: its music beckons in rhythms, time signatures, and lullabies. Tula: can the poem, he seems to ask, build an imaginative bridge back to a family lost to geography, history, and a forgotten language?
Inspired by the experiences of the second-generation immigrant who does not fully acquire the language of his parents, Tula paints the portrait of a mythic homeland that is part ghostly underworld, part unknowable paradise. Language splinters. Impossible islands form an archipelago across its landscape. A mother sings lullabies and a father works the graveyard shift in Saint Paul--while in the Philippines, two dissident uncles and a grandfather send messages and telegrams from the afterlife.
Deeply ambitious, a collection that examines the shortcomings and possibilities of both language and poetry themselves, Tula introduces a major new literary talent.
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