Catrachos
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: May 05, 2020
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9781644450239
Description: The breathtaking debut collection from one of America's most inventive new poetsA name for the people of Honduras, Catrachos is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching, riveting poems, Roy G. Guzma n reaches across borders--between life and death and between countries-invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age story, Catrachos finds its own religion in fantastic figures such as the X-Men, pop singers, and the "Queerodactyl," which is imagined in a series of poems as a dinosaur sashaying in the shadow of an oncoming comet, insistent on surviving extinction. With exceptional energy, humor, and inventiveness, Guzma n's debut is a devastating display of lyrical and moral complexity--an introduction to an immediately captivating, urgently needed voice.
Notes: Source title: Catrachos: Poems