| For Want of Water: And Other Poems Contributor(s): Pimentel, Sasha (Author), Pardlo, Gregory (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0807027855 ISBN-13: 9780807027851 Publisher: Beacon Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Asian American - Poetry | Women Authors |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2016052722 |
| Series: National Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 6.1" W x 9.2" (0.50 lbs) 136 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award-winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, Ciudad Ju rez suffers a history of femicides and a horrific drug war. Witnessing this, a Filipina's life unravels as she tries to love an addict, the murders growing just a city--but the breadth of a country--away. This collection weaves the personal with recent history, the domestic with the tragic, asking how much "a body will hold," reaching from the border to the poet's own Philippines. These poems thirst in the desert, want for water, searching the brutal and tender territories between bodies, families, and nations. |