Arco Iris
By: Sarah Vap
Publisher: Saturnalia Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ardmore, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9780983368649
Subjects: American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "In her latest collection, Arco Iris, Sarah Vap explores race, tourism, market, history, intimacy, and the vulnerability of lives beneath the stamp of longstanding powers. Whiteness is considered through the action of travel in South America where white bodies disappear, or are invisible, or attempt to become irrelevant, or are impossible to destroy. These hallucinatory poems explore the subtle violence beneath the commonplace in a foreign land, a violence which underscores the naivete of the traveler."--Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Ghost; title: Travel; title: Heave; title: Rider; title: And over her spinning rainbow; title: Zipaquira Salt Mine; title: South; title: To Quito; title: History; title: Market; title: Currency; title: Thread; title: Traces of Eva's potato song; title: Train, Cuzco-Puno; title: Time travel; title: The riverboat; title: As if we hemispheres folding onto each other; title: Institution, travel; title: Firmament; title: Andes; title: Hypermarket; title: Pale; title: Covenant; title: Sphinx; title: Learning history; title: Meridian; title: Excelling violet; title: Spring-; title: Iris; title: Rustling, so beautifully?; title: Galactic roses; title: Hammer buried in white mud, bank of the Orinoco; title: Economy; title: The coca leaf fortune-teller; title: Do you want to say anything here; title: Oliviera; title: Floating turd next tot he dead floating snake; title: What we think when we travel this river; title: Sunset, Tayrona; title: The seven directions; title: Night, Tayrona; title: Star-shaped hubcaps across Medellin; title: Iris, starless; title: Or to say-; title: Ruins; title: Suspension.