Stepmotherland - Darrel Alejandro Holnes

Stepmotherland

Buch | Hardcover
104 Seiten
2022
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-20215-6 (ISBN)
83,55 inkl. MwSt
"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
Stepmotherland is a tour-de-force debut collection about coming of age, coming out, and coming to America.


Winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, Stepmotherland, Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s first full-length collection, is filled with poems that chronicle and question identity, family, and allegiance. This Central American love song is in constant motion as it takes us on a lyrical and sometimes narrative journey from Panamá to the USA and beyond. The driving force behind Holnes’s work is a pursuit for a new home, and as he searches, he takes the reader on a wild ride through the most pressing political issues of our time and the most intimate and transformative personal experiences of his life. Exploring a complex range of emotions, this collection is a celebration of the discovery of America, the discovery of self, and the ways they may be one and the same.


Holnes’s poems experiment with macaronic language, literary forms, and prosody. In their inventiveness, they create a new tradition that blurs the borders between poetry, visual art, and dramatic text. The new legacy he creates is one with significant reverence for the past, which informs a central desire of immigrants and native-born citizens alike: the desire for a better life. Stepmotherland documents an artist’s evolution into manhood and heralds the arrival of a stunning new poetic voice.

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.

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 Panamá

5. When the Narcos Kidnap JuanFe

6. The Art of Diplomacy

7. Bread Pudding Grandmamma

8. Poder


Inmigrante

9. Tú

10. Conception

11. How to Dream About a Woman

12. ba-by

13. Pietà 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 & Entering

24. Angelitos Negros


Patriot

25. The Down-Low Messiahs

26. Power Bottom

27. Vinyl

28. I Always Promised I’d Never Do Drag

29. Arroz Con Pollo

30. Joseph on Knowledge in the Biblical Sense

31. All Legs Lead to Naomi Campbell

32. Rihanna & Child

33. Naturalization

34. Black Parade

35. Homecoming


Notes


Acknowledgments

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize
Verlagsort Notre Dame IN
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 0-268-20215-X / 026820215X
ISBN-13 978-0-268-20215-6 / 9780268202156
Zustand Neuware
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