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Language:EnglishPublisher:Black Lawrence PressISBN-13:9781625570789ISBN-10:1625570783UPC:9781625570789Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, FamilySize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2205Product ID:SC8PTE77HF
Caulbearer
In many cultures, a caul is considered talismanic; and a child born with it, possessing luck or protection. Luisa A. Igloria invokes this metaphor to weave poems exploring the veiled intervals of transition experienced by those in the diaspora-- or by anyone who has felt a severing from their origins. The poems in Caulbearer enter spaces not only of nostalgia, loss, and impossible return. They...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Black Lawrence PressISBN-13:9781625570789ISBN-10:1625570783UPC:9781625570789Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & Themes, Women AuthorsBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, FamilySize:8.40 x 5.40 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.2205Product ID:SC8PTE77HF
Originally from Baguio City, Luisa A. Igloria is the author of Maps for Migrants and Ghosts, The Buddha Wonders if She is Having a Mid-Life Crisis, and 12 other books. She is lead editor, along with co-editors Aileen Cassinetto and Jeremy S. Hoffman, of Dear Human at the Edge of Time: Poems on Climate Change in the United States. In 2015, she was the inaugural recipient of the Resurgence Poetry...
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