The Inheritance of Haunting
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-10537-2 (ISBN)
Winner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, The Inheritance of Haunting, by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war, and survival.
The driving forces behind Rhodes’s work include a decolonizing ethos; a queer sensibility that extends beyond sexual and gender identities to include a politics of deviance; errantry; ramshackled bodies; and forms of loving and living that persist in their wild difference. Invoking individual and collective ghosts inherited across diverse geographies, this collection queers the space between past, present, and future. In these poems, haunting is a kind of memory weaving that can bestow a freedom from the attenuations of the so-called American dream, which, according to Rhodes, is a nightmare of assimilation, conquest, and genocide. How love unfolds is also a Big Bang emergence into life—a way to, again and again, cut the future open, open up the opening, undertake it, begin.
These poems are written for immigrants, queer and transgender people of color, women, Latin Americans, diasporic communities, and the many impacted by war.
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes is a queer, disabled, brown/Colombian poet, scholar, and cultural worker. Her poetry collection The Inheritance of Haunting explores intergenerational memory and postcolonial trauma. Most recently, she was a spring 2021 Mellon Arts Fellow at Yale’s Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Her work has been published in Poetry, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Nat. Brut, Foglifter, and Waxwing, among other places.
Foreword
Part 1. El Otro Lado / The Other Side
1. the past is a candle in the temple of my mouth
2. the other side (I.)
3. scar
4. all your braids like a compass will bring us home
5. all that is left
6. where it begins
7. tristeza profunda
8. heard in the yes of gods
9. she who does not feel her name beneath her feet will wander, will wander
10. if I wear my hair this way
11. imbunche
12. 1901
13. blood of la mojana
14. the flower husband
15. purgatory
16. la llorona
17. the dream in which we die together
18. heresy in our bones
19. missionary
20. prayer for the children who will be born with today’s daggers in their tomorrow eyes
21. the other side (II.)
Part 2. Casi Pájaros / Almost Birds
1. dis-astre
2. when the machete will sever the ballad (memory-mourning for El Mozote)
3. fog
4. last balloon
5. eternal return
6. so far
7. the terror of clean
8. A11728
9. non-combat related incidents & other lies
10. elix/womb/house
11. what the bird has seen
12. like fish like song
13. little birds
14. onomasticon (I.) (or, I sing the names of our dead)
15. the ache on the tongue of the grieving
16. the value of sparrows
17. azan, or the call to prayer, o resistir es rezar que arrasamos el orden de arrancamiento, or when the sky opens & I am swallowed
18. ‘til the taste of free in our mouths (brown baby lullaby)
19. for the boy who went to war & came back fire, came back song
20. fishbone
Endnotes
Gratitude
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.03.2019 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize |
| Verlagsort | Notre Dame IN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-268-10537-5 / 0268105375 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-268-10537-2 / 9780268105372 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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