Karankawa by Rocha, Iliana

Karankawa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780822963844)

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Format: Paperback
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Karankawa by Rocha, Iliana

Karankawa

$18.00
Karankawa by Rocha, Iliana

Karankawa

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the 2014 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Selected by Joy Harjo Karankawa is a collection that explores some of the ways in which we (re)construct our personal histories. Rich in family narratives, myths, and creation stories, these are poems that investigate passage--dying, coming out, transforming, being born--as well as the gaps that also reside in our stories, for, as Rocha suggests, the opportunity to create myths is provided by great silences. Much like the Karankawa Indians whose history works in omissions, Karankawa reconfigures such spaces, engaging with the burden and freedom of memory in order to rework and recontextualize private and public mythologies. First and last, these are poems that honor our griefs and desires, for they keep alive the very things we cannot possess.

Author: Iliana Rocha
ISBN-10: 0822963841
ISBN-13: 9780822963844
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Language: English
Published: 08/28/2015
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.30d
By Iliana Rocha
By Iliana Rocha
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Iliana Rocha is a PhD candidate in English with a creative writing emphasis at Western Michigan University. She earned her MFA in creative writing from Arizona State University, where she was poetry editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. Her work was chosen for the Best New Poets 2014 anthology and has appeared or is forthcoming in Blackbird, Yalobusha Review, Puerto del Sol, and Third Coast.

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