Mouth Filled with Night
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: Feb 11, 2014
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 46
ISBN-13: 9780810129771
Description: The winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, Rodney Gomez’s collection Mouth Filled with Night employs familiar emblems of Mexican American identity to repeatedly subvert expectations while intensifying the dilemmas of affiliation. The poems run beyond more conventional ideas of agency, identity, and experience, creating a newly invigorated imaginative space. As a collection, Mouth Filled with Night gains particular momentum — a pitched anxiety that slowly grows throughout the volume — to create a poetic experience unique to the chapbook form.
Notes: Source title: Mouth Filled with Night: Poems (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize)