If Roque Dalton Were My Father. Creation -- Los Pajaros Saben -- JAZzista -- A Requiem -- Day Six -- Junior High School Biology Teacher -- Images -- God Is -- Flattening the Curve -- Sleepless in Pandemia -- I Only Breathe Here. When We Were Children -- This is How You Dismantle Grief -- Generation Z -- Squeezing the Rain into My Fists -- Ode to the Girl Who Told Me She Would Date Me if I Lost Weight -- When I was a Little Boy -- Hush -- Restlessness -- I Just Wanted to Share Pretty Flowers With You -- We Laid There -- I Only Breathe Here -- Diurnal Rhythm. This is How I'm Going to Die -- Two Dogs Tumble Playfully -- Today I Salute the Homeless -- I Woke Up -- I Don't Tell People About the Spider Web in My Backyard -- Fear Leaves You When You Have Nothing Left -- How to Disappear -- Poem in the Time of Daylight Savings -- Dreaming and Screaming -- You Can't Be a Writer and Hate Trees -- Tears on My Pillow -- On the Fringe of Slumber -- Cigarettes & Grief -- Watercress Triggers Memory -- Last Night's Dream -- Dreaming Eden -- The Morning After. I Went to Bed in Flames -- Early Morning in My Yard -- There We Are -- Still in Bed -- Call Me by My Morning Name -- Thursday -- The Hours of Soil -- Three Little Birds -- Why Roses Lose Their Fragrance in Autumn -- Mirasoles -- The Morning After -- Plastic Poetry -- The Aftershock -- If Roque Dalton Were My Father.
Summary:
"Pandemia & Other Poems is a new scripture for the plague years. Unabashedly bi-lingual and pan-cultural, a creation myth in the face of destruction, a seed of renacimiento in our charred garden. It echoes the great Raza voices while reaching deep into far older roots as it leaps into the future. This is the real deal"--Provided by publisher.
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