Pity the Drowned Horses

Sheryl Luna

Description

Pity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Sheryl Luna’s poems are also about family and home within the broader context of the border as both a bridge and a barrier. They deal with the bilingual and bicultural city and how a place is longed for and viewed very differently as the observer changes and experiences other cultures.

The first two sections of poems focus on home and family. They show that, despite poverty and geographical isolation, the border towns of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez are places of beauty and promise. The third section explores cultures: how anxiety over aesthetic judgments, values, and difference are negotiated. The final section is one of praise and recognition that despite differences we are all longing for faith and a place to call home.

Sujets

• Women Authors
• Social Science
• Sociologie, société et politique
• Nueva Orleans
• Washington D. C.
• América
• Hispanic and Latino Americans
• El Paso, Texas
• Washington, D.C.
• New Orleans
• Poetry
• Latina
• American
• Paris
• El Paso
• Discrimination
• Juárez
• La Nouvelle-Orléans
• Sylvia Plath
• Prague
• Washington (District de Columbia)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• San Francisco

Informations

• Publié par: University of Notre Dame Press
• Date de parution: 31 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780268160852
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

P i t y t h e Dr o w n e d Ho r s e s

The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize

Pity the Drowned Horses

She r y l L u n a

University of Notre Dame Press

Notre Dame, Indiana

Copyright © 2005 Sheryl Luna

Published by the University of Notre Dame Press Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 www.undpress.nd.edu

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Published in the United States of America

Reprinted in 2007, 2013

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication DataLuna, Sheryl, 1965– Pity the drowned horses / Sheryl Luna. p. cm. Winner of the first Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize.ISBN 0-268-03373-0 (acid-free paper) ISBN 0-268-03374-9 (pbk. : acid-free paper) 1. Mexican-American Border Region--Poetry. I. Title. PS3612.U534P58 2005 811'.6 — dc22 2005001220

for my mother Ida

C o n t e n t s

Acknowledgments

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Bones 3 Organ Failure 5 Her Back, My Bridge 7 The Dance 9 Ambition 11 The Cordova Bridge 13 Slow Dancing with Frank Pérez 15 Woman as a River Between Borders 16

II

Running 21 The Child 24 Trying Too Hard to Sing Ballads Beneath Stars Gravel, Stones 28 Blazing 30 Learning to Speak 32 The Falling Apart 33 River Ghost 35

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