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| ISBN-13: | 9780892555321 |
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| Publisher: | Persea Books |
| Publication date: | 09/21/2021 |
| Pages: | 224 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
Table of Contents
A Preface xi
New Poems / \ Poemas Nuevos / \ Baro a Dandaniw / \ Bagong Tula
Boys' Bodies in Flight (are also a kind of text) 5
A Town Called Sadness 14
The Changing Hymn (Allegory of the Singing Lover) 17
Making Out on a Hill Overlooking the Hudson 23
The Hanged Ghost 26
A Memory on the Eve of the Return of the U.S. Military to Subic Bay 28
Learning to Slaughter 30
If All My Relationships Fail and I Have No Children Do I Even Know What Love Is 32
When Prince Was Filipino 34
On the Elevation of Earthlings-a Hymn 36
Atang: Building My First Altar 38
Check, Incantation Composed on the Occasion of Being Classified As Inadmissible 41
Gift 49
Where the Ocean Ends 52
La Época en que Hay Olvido 54
Sleeping Animal 56
The Last Thing or Song for When They Take It All Away 58
Selected Poems
From Uprock Headspin Scramble and Dive (2003)
B-Boy Infinitives 71
Freddie 73
Nine Thousand Outlines 74
You Clubhouse Boys 76
The Next Hundred-Odd Half-Dreamed Miles 78
Citrus City 80
Who Says the Eye Loves Symmetry 82
"My Mother Is in Los Angeles" 83
Uncommon Denominators 85
Poem 87
Pick-up Line Ending with a Prayer 88
From My American Kundiman (2006)
Meditations on the Eve of My Niece's Birth 93
On Our Long Road Trip Home I Don't Ask My Friend if He Thinks His Youngest Daughter Might Be Someone Else's Kid 94
Beast 96
Lapu Lapu's Envoy Conveys His Response to Magellan 98
When You Haven't Made Love in a Long Time 99
The Woman You Love Cuts Apples For You 100
Kundiman In Medias Res 102
Kundiman on a Dance Floor Called Guernica 103
Kundiman Ending on a Theme from T La Rock 105
Kundiman for My Lover Beside Me on the Floor (Her Daughter Asleep on My Bed) 107
Poem for My Extra Nipple 108
About the White Boys Who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me 109
As Glass 111
St. Patrick 114
Two Black People and a Filipino Near the Concessions Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival 116
Photo of My Grandmother Running Toward Us on a Beach in Ilokos 117
From Boneshepherds (2011)
Boneshepherds' Lament 121
Delenda Undone 124
Little Men with Fast Hands 126
Bienvenida: Santo Tomás 127
Tamarind 130
Crew Love Elegy 132
Sundiata Elegy 134
Ars Poetica: After a Dog 137
Naima 141
Aubade: The Monday Bargain 145
Making Love to You the Night They Take Your Father to Prison 147
Guitar 151
Despedida Ardiente 153
The Tradition of Pianos 155
From Brooklyn Antediluvian (2016)
Despedida: Brooklyn to Philly 161
Typhoon Poem 163
At the Tribunals 165
A Scavenger's Ode to the Turntable (aka a Note to Thomas Alva Edison) 167
Brokeheart: Just Like That 169
Ode to the Cee-Lo Players 171
The Halo-Halo Men: An Anthem 173
Violets 175
Wish 177
Kundiman: Hung justice 179
Instance of an Island 181
Ten Years After My Mom Dies I Dance 184
Children Walk on Chairs to Cross a Flooded Schoolyard 186
Ode to Eating a Pomegranate in Brooklyn 188
You Cannot Go to the God You Love with Your Two Legs 189
Brooklyn Antediluvian 190
Acknowledgments 205