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Crash Course
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Artikel-Nr:
9781732952133
Veröffentl:
2019
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
15.11.2019
Seiten:
68
Autor:
Esteban Rodriguez
Gewicht:
114 g
Format:
229x152x4 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Esteban Rodriguez is the author of Dusk & Dust, (Dis)placement, and the micro-chapbook Soledad. His poetry has appeared in The Gettysburg Review, New England Review, Shenandoah, TriQuarterly, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. He is the Interviews Editor at the EcoTheo Review and is a regular reviews contributor at PANK Magazine and Heavy Feather Review. He lives with his family and teaches high school in Austin, Texas.
Through lyric and narrative poems alike, the speaker of the poems in Crash Course attempts to understand the manner in which cultural traditions and expectations shape their understanding of the world. Watching a father patch up a truck ponders the effect of language across generations. A simple knock on the door provides a meditation on the immigrant experience, and the anxiety surrounding what it means to arrive with nothing in a different country. Other poems look at the complexity of familial relationships, dissecting specific moments that although appear mundane on the surface (shopping for items to put on layaway, barbecues, watching a cousin feed his pet snake), are - once fleshed out on the page - profound episodes that enlighten a labyrinth of memories.