Stepmotherland - Holnes, Darrel Alejandro

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Résumé :
In Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes meditates on migration, and the American dream. He reminds us that Blackness is everywhere, persevering against erasure and violence. This collection is a satisfying and essential second book that leaves us excited for all that is to come from this poet. -Yesenia Montilla author of The Pink Box...

Biographie:

Foreigner
1. When My Mother Gives Up Her American Dream to Marry My Father
2. Praise Song for My Mutilated World
3. Scenes from Operation Just Cause
4. 20 de Diciembre, 1989: When the U.S. Invades Panam?
5. When the Narcos Kidnap JuanFe
6. The Art of Diplomacy
7. Bread Pudding Grandmamma
8. Poder

Inmigrante
9. T?
10. Conception
11. How to Dream About a Woman
12. ba-by
13. Piet? by Michelangelo: Marble, 1499
14. OTM or Other Than Mexican
15. Mirror Woman
16. Marvelous Sugar Baby

Citizen
17. Cristo Negro de Portobelo
18. African-Americanize
19. African Klan Suit #2
20. Ferguson, USA
21. Links
22. Ode to My Father, The Captain
23. Breaking &...

Sommaire:

Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro-Panamanian American writer and is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in Creative Writing (Poetry). His poems have previously appeared in the American Poetry Review, Poetry, Callaloo, Best American Experimental Writing, and elsewhere. Holnes is a Cave Canem and CantoMundo fellow who has earned scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Postgraduate Writers Conference at Vermont College of Fine Arts, and residencies nationwide, including a residency at MacDowell. His poem Praise Song for My Mutilated World won the C. P. Cavafy Poetry Prize from Poetry International. He is an assistant professor of English at Medgar Evers College, a senior college of the City University of New York (CUNY), where he teaches creative writing and playwriting, and a faculty member of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University.