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iSBN 978-0-14-312140-4 $18.00 ($19.00 CAN)
Poetry 5 1 /2 x 8 7 /16 80 pp. Rights: W00
A Penguin Poets Original U.K., Translation: Penguin
On sale: 5/29/2012
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Also AvAilABle fRoM Penguin:
Hoodlum Birds 978-0-14-303644-9 $17.00
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Praise for Hoodlum Birds:
“ It demonstrates a central
quality of poetry: depth of
language, the power to get
past the first surfaces of
words and things. . . . [He]
brings the historical and the
contemporary into fresh,
vivid relation.”
— The Washington Post
A third collection from an award-winning
poet whose “gift is breathtaking” (Naomi
Shihab Nye)
My Favorite Warlord
Eugene Gloria
The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet’s sense of origin
are at the heart of Eugene Gloria’s rich and captivating new
collection. The title poem weaves together Japan’s sixteenth-century
warlord Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet’s father’s
dementia; “Here on Earth” embraces post-racial America and the
speaker’s own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and
psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and
pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage, civility,
love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria’s own fears of frailty
and erasure.
n Also available as an e-book
eugene gloRiA was born in Manila, Philippines, and
raised in San Francisco, California. He is the author of two previous
collections, Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (winner of the 1999
National Poetry Series) and, most recently, Hoodlum Birds. He
teaches creative writing and English literature at DePauw University
in Greencastle, Indiana.
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