CantoMundo Poetry Series

Poems

Sara Lupita Olivares

• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781610757317
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

Sara Lupita Olivares's Migratory Sound, winner of the 2020 CantoMundo Poetry Prize, looks back to generational narratives of Mexican American migration, examining linguistic and geographic boundaries as it journeys north along routes of seasonal fieldwork and factory labor. "Whether enacting a bird migration, or the uprooting of people relocating north, or the private movement from sleep to alert vigilance, " series editors Carolina Ebeid and Carmen Giménez Smith observe, "Olivares's stark poetry concerns the precarious idea of place and its underlying 'unplace.' She makes evident how every place bears a relationship with an elsewhere, an over there sometimes situated underneath."

Contents

1. Cover Page
2. Title Page
3. Copyright Page
4. Dedication
5. Contents
6. Series Editors’ Preface
7. Acknowledgments
8. Night
9. *
   1. Moment Where I Keep What I’d Wanted to Give
   2. Animalier: On Stasis
   3. Where the Field Retracted
   4. Etymology
   5. Of Small Spaces
   6. Migratory Sound
10. * *
    1. Drawings of a Red-Billed Pigeon
    2. Correspondence
    3. Glimpse
    4. When Considering the Water
    5. Circuit
    6. To Make Beauty in Some Sense Imperishable
    7. Of Inheritance
    8. The Field as a Circle
    9. Respond to View
11. * * *
    1. On Balance
    2. Pastoral
    3. Clemency
    4. Moment to Moment
    5. Fertility
    6. Form
    7. Static
    8. On Remoteness
12. * * * *
    1. Implied Surroundings
    2. Drawing of a Bear Walking
    3. Manifest
    4. Sleepwalk
    5. What Never Converges
    6. Hinge
    7. Lies About Horses
    8. Worn-Yard Games
    9. Seasons
13. * * * * *
    1. Numbers
    2. Against
    3. Honorable Wreckage
    4. Toward
    5. Forest
    6. Stairway
    7. Certain Noise
    8. Radiant
    9. Tint
14. * * * * * *
    1. Clarities
    2. Collective
    3. Pattern Without Line
    4. What Is Your Grief
    5. To Watch
    6. Within Hands
    7. On Forgetting
    8. Without Vanishing
15. * * * * * * *
    1. Small Ghost
    2. Jaw in Grass
    3. About Oblivion
    4. Maps
    5. Openings
    6. What Do You See
    7. Resemblances...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Series Editors’ Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Night
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• Notes