Tripas
Tripas
Author: Brandon Som
ISBN: 9780820363509
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Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry
With Tripas, Brandon Som Follows Up His Award-Winning Debut With a Book of Poems Built Out of a Multicultural, Multigenerational Childhood Home, in Which He Celebrates His Chicana Grandmother, Who Worked Nights on the Assembly Line at Motorola, and His Chinese American Father and Grandparents, Who Ran the Family Corner Store. Enacting a Como Se Dice Poetics, a Dialogic Poem-Making That Inventively Listens to Heritage Languages and Transcribes Family Memory, Som Participates in a Practice of Mem(Oir), Placing Each Poem's Ear Toward a Confluence of History, Labor, and Languages, While Also Enacting a Kind of Telephone Between Cultures. Invested in the Circuitry and Circuitous Routes of Migration and Labor, Som's Lyricism Weaves Together the Narratives of His Transnational Communities, Bringing to Light What is Overshadowed in the Reckless Transit of Global Capitalism and Ima
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Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry
With Tripas, Brandon Som Follows Up His Award-Winning Debut With a Book of Poems Built Out of a Multicultural, Multigenerational Childhood Home, in Which He Celebrates His Chicana Grandmother, Who Worked Nights on the Assembly Line at Motorola, and His Chinese American Father and Grandparents, Who Ran the Family Corner Store. Enacting a Como Se Dice Poetics, a Dialogic Poem-Making That Inventively Listens to Heritage Languages and Transcribes Family Memory, Som Participates in a Practice of Mem(Oir), Placing Each Poem's Ear Toward a Confluence of History, Labor, and Languages, While Also Enacting a Kind of Telephone Between Cultures. Invested in the Circuitry and Circuitous Routes of Migration and Labor, Som's Lyricism Weaves Together the Narratives of His Transnational Communities, Bringing to Light What is Overshadowed in the Reckless Transit of Global Capitalism and Ima
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