Alborada (Dawn): A Cross-Cultural Memoir in Poetry

Nylda Dieppa

Description

In Alborada (Dawn): A Cross-Cultural Memoir in Poetry, Nylda Dieppa sketches the formative and transformative experiences of her lifetime—from childhood on the island of Puerto Rico through maturity in the continental United States—as paralleled by the sun’s passage through the times of the day. This enhanced, newly retitled  edition of Dieppa’s award-winning Alborada: A Poetic Memoir Across Cultures adds fourteen new and ten revised poems to inspire the joys of spiritual and emotional healing.

From the dawning innocence of a girl’s first crush alongside the rise of a young woman’s longing to belong and be loved, Dieppa shines daylight on the anguish and delights of both growing up and parenting at every age. Her lyrical and narrative poems highlight the shadows cast by culture shock, and they reveal the encroaching darkness of sorrow and betrayal as the sun sets on a thirty-eight-year marriage. Yet Alborada also illuminates the wonder of deliverance from midnight’s despair to the hope and wholeness of a new day’s dawn.
LOVE POEM

Write me a love poem, you say.

A love poem?

Is there any other kind?

There must be love somewhere

in order to write a poem

full of emotion and insight.

To touch someone’s soul

with words that are full of anguish

or pleasure, pride, or joy.

Why would I put two words together

if I had nothing to say

about my soul or yours or ours?

Why would you linger on them,

tasting the terror, watching the wind,

hearing the hope, memorizing the music

if there was no love in them

to touch your heart

with my soul’s blood?

Sujets

• Women Authors
• América
• List of poetry collections
• Hispanic
• Poetry
• American
• Family
• Latino

Informations

• Publié par: Orange Blossom Publishing
• Date de parution: 03 mai 2023
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781949935745
• Langue: English

Extrait

Table of Contents D ESPERTAR (A WAKENING ) T RIGGER W ARNING A S ECRET M ESSAGE L OVE P OEM R EINITA G ROWTH S ONG F IRST C RUSH B INOCULAR L INEAGE N ANILEILOE T HE E LEMENT M EMORIESOFA P ORTRAITEN P LEIN A IR L A L UZDEL D ÍA (D AYLIGHT ) A NOTHER N AMEFOR D EDICATION S HEET M USIC O N H OW I W ANTTO W RITE I N L OVE A GAIN S OMETHING S WEET R EALIZATION I MPOSSIBLES F LYING H IGH W ISHESINTHE W IND R EALIZATION II A TARDECER (D USK ) T OTHE Y OUNG W OMANINTHE O LD P HOTO E XPLORATION A LWAYSIN M Y H EART D AMN F REE A T INY T HING M AKES A LLTHE D IFFERENCE H ALFWAY P OINT S LOW S UNSETIN S ARASOTA P INEAPPLE F LIGHT O DETOTHE G RAVID B ANANA T REE L OVE S ONGIN T WO T EMPOS N OCHE (N IGHT ) A BOUT L IFE P RUDENCE N UERA V ACATION T HE L IFESPANOF A S ONG N EWSOFTHE D AY I D ON ’ T R EMEMBERTHE D AY I don’t remember the day I let go of his hand. Must have been in my twenties when I thought to myself, “I can do this. I’ve got what it takes. Then I blamed him for running away from me, for abandoning me, for his lies and infidelity. But why should he hang around if I didn’t need him? for the nitty-gritty, absurd reality of day-to-day life with me and our children when happiness and freedom were beckoning him E TERNAL L OVE I E TERNAL L OVE II M EDIANOCHE (M IDNIGHT ) I NSPIREDBYTHE D ESPONDENT P OEM I L EARNEDIN S CHOOL PTSD T HE L AST O NE A N O LD M OOR M AKESA B AD C HRISTIAN A LONEINA F OREIGN C OUNTRY A LBORADA (D AWN ) M Y N EW O FFICE S ELF -H ELP One, get out of bed: Two, get cleaned and fed; Three, get organized: Four, do something productive: see therapist, exercise, get a massage, buy groceries, pick up meds, babysit a grandchild, write a poem, water the plants, vacuum, do the dishes, clean the toilet, post a protest link on Facebook, call someone who’s lonely, meditate, whatever . . . Five, do something foolish: