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Corpse Whale dg nanouk okpik Foreword by Arthur Sze A modern Inuit perspective in narrative verse Of Related Interest Life Woven with Song Nora Marks Dauenhauer “A wonderful collection.” —International Fiction Review ISBN 978-0-8165-2006-0 $19.95 paper Sing Poetry from the Indigenous Americas Edited by Allison Adelle Hedge Coke ISBN 978-0-8165-2891-2 $29.95 paper A self-proclaimed “vessel in which stories are told from time immemorial,” poet dg nanouk okpik seamlessly melds both traditional and contemporary narrative, setting her apart from her peers. The result is a collection of poems that are steeped in the perspective of an Inuit of the twenty-first century—a perspective that is fresh, vibrant, and rarely seen in contemporary poetics. Fearless in her craft, okpik brings an experimental, yet poignant, hybrid aesthetic to her first book, making it truly one of a kind. “It takes all of us seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling to be one,” she says, embodying these words in her work. Every sense is amplified as the poems, carefully arranged, pull the reader into their worlds. While each poem stands on its own, they flow together throughout the collection into a single cohesive body. The book quickly sets up its own rhythms, moving the reader through interior and exterior landscapes, dark and light, and other spaces both ecological and spiritual. These narrative, and often visionary, poems let the lives of animal species and the power of natural processes weave into the human psyche, and vice versa. Okpik’s descriptive rhythms ground the reader in movement and music that transcend everyday logic and open up our hearts to the richness of meaning available in the interior and exterior worlds. dg nanouk okpik is a resident advisor at Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico. Her poetry appears in the books Effigies: An Anthology of New Indigenous Writing, and Sing: Poetry from the Indigenous Americas. Poetry / nAtive AMeRIcan liteRAtURe Sun Tracks volume 73 October 104 pp. 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8165-2674-1 $15.95 paper 4 www.uapress.arizona.edu W 1-800-621-2736 “A lively and enlivening collection of poetry. okpik’s verse is distinct poetic magic.” —Maria Melendez, author of Flexible Bones “Corpse Whale is a refreshing departure from many of the tropes we see in contemporary poetry. It is an emotive illumination into a corner of the world we so rarely get a glimpse of. Intimate and storied, okpik’s work ushers us into a new poetic topography that is both imaginative and necessary.” —Matthew Shenoda, author of Seasons of Lotus, Seasons of Bone
Full Foreground Roberto Tejada Poems illuminate a tangled web of identity Poet Roberto Tejada uses lyrical poems to explore and give a voice to the troubles of global citizenship, US–Mexico relations, Latino identity, and the political emotion of queer sexualities. His collection provides a holistic ground-level view of pivotal world events from the mid 1990s to a more recent present. Tejada’s innovative work dramatically widens the scope of Latina/o literature, showing us exactly what it can accomplish. The poems move very much like a three-act play, in which the first act is one of origins; the second, a staging of desire; and the third, a symbiosis. These acts magnify one another when unified. Each poem within the collection positions itself within the avant-garde, in which the artful use of language aims to dazzle, surprise, and enliven. The poems dance by, preserving a tension between hurry and delay, momentum and stasis, and every line is like a newly launched firecracker, sending out startling patterns of spark and flare. Tejada’s exuberant language stretches the limits of selfhood and the way it is represented in poetry. He illuminates the tangled webs that are woven when identities are linked to sexuality, nationality, privilege, and temporality. The concerns and obsessions voiced here turn the construction of desire on its head, forcing us to ask ourselves what is worthy of our attentions. Roberto Tejada is Distinguished Endowed Chair in Art History at Southern Methodist University. He is also the founder and co-editor of the journal Mandorla: New Writing from the Americas and the author of Exposition Park. “This is a book of channeling, words taking the place of other words, phrases racing back and forth across the page, daring me to read it again. Roberto Tejada lets us glimpse into his own peculiar microcosmic literary world. He turns a political eye, a distant ear, and sees lightning, hears thunder.” —Exene Cervenka “Roberto Tejada’s important book of poems Full Foreground is complicated in its geographical, historical, religious, linguistic journey through migration of spirit and fragments of events. In penetrating the swarm of life behind the screen to see what’s happening, Tejada searches for the world between degradation and pointlessness, between the diplomacy of a speck and the outburst of a stain. Tejada has excavated the dynamic changes of contemporary human space.” —Jayne Cortez, author of Jazz Fan Looks Back “With this book the construction of desire gets turned on its head. Tejada has already established his reputation with Mirrors for Gold and Exposition Park, but Full Foreground catapults his vision into new vistas full of consequence and excitement for American letters— and by American, I mean the Americas.” —Timothy Liu, author of Bending the Mind Around the Dream’s Blown Fuse POEMA Maurice Kilwein Guevara “It is rare to see contemporary writing so passionately crafted.” —Multicultural Review ISBN 978-0-8165-2725-0 $15.95 paper Home Movies of Narcissus Rane Arroyo “Arroyo’s combination of themes drives this appealing mix of ambition and insight.” —Publishers Weekly ISBN 978-0-8165-2195-1 $15.95 paper Of Related Interest poetry / latino liteRAtURe Camino del Sol September 88 pp. 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8165-2133-3 $15.95 paper www.uapress.arizona.edu W 1-800-621-2736 5
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