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Availability:In StockContributor:R. A. VillanuevaSeries:Prairie Schooner Book Prize in PoetryPublish date:2014-09-01Pages:82
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803296381ISBN-10:080329638XUPC:9780803296381Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Asian, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, Death, Grief, LossSize:9.14 x 6.02 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SC902C1XGR

In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate with the voices of the dead and those who remember them. In this remarkable book, we enter the vessel of memory, the vessel of the body. The dead act as witness, the living as chimera, and we learn that whatever the state of the body, this much rings true: every ode is an elegy; each elegy is always an ode.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Nebraska PressISBN-13:9780803296381ISBN-10:080329638XUPC:9780803296381Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Asian, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, Death, Grief, LossSize:9.14 x 6.02 x 0.23 inchesWeight:0.291Product ID:SC902C1XGR

R. A. Villanueva was born in New Jersey and lives in Brooklyn. His honors include the 2013 Ninth Letter Literary Award for poetry and fellowships from Kundiman and the Asian American Literary Review. His writing has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Bellevue Literary Review, and elsewhere. A founding editor of Tongue: A Journal of Writing & Art, he teaches at New York University.

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

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