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by Chris Santiago
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chris Santiago, A. Van Jordan (Editor)Publish date:2016-11-01Pages:96
Language:EnglishPublisher:Milkweed EditionsISBN-13:9781571314888ISBN-10:1571314881UPC:9781571314888Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, FamilySize:8.40 x 5.60 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCGHBSWQDP

Tula: a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for "poem."

Prismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago's debut collection of poems--selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize for Poetry--begins with one word and transforms it, in a dazzling sleight of hand, into a multivalent symbol for the immigrant experience. Tula: Santiago reveals to readers a distant land devastated by war. Tula: its music beckons in rhythms, time signatures, and lullabies. Tula: can the poem, he seems to ask, build an imaginative bridge back to a family lost to geography, history, and a forgotten language?

Inspired by the experiences of the second-generation immigrant who does not fully acquire the language of his parents, Tula paints the portrait of a mythic homeland that is part ghostly underworld, part unknowable paradise. Language splinters. Impossible islands form an archipelago across its landscape. A mother sings lullabies and a father works the graveyard shift in Saint Paul--while in the Philippines, two dissident uncles and a grandfather send messages and telegrams from the afterlife.

Deeply ambitious, a collection that examines the shortcomings and possibilities of both language and poetry themselves, Tula introduces a major new literary talent.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Milkweed EditionsISBN-13:9781571314888ISBN-10:1571314881UPC:9781571314888Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Asian American & Pacific Islander, FamilySize:8.40 x 5.60 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCGHBSWQDP
Chris Santiago's poems, fiction, and criticism have appeared in FIELD, Copper Nickel, Pleiades, and the Asian American Literary Review. He holds degrees in creative writing and music from Oberlin College and received his PhD in English from the University of Southern California. The recipient of fellowships from Kundiman and the Mellon Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies, Santiago is also a percussionist and amateur jazz pianist. He teaches literature, sound culture, and creative writing at the University of St. Thomas. He lives in Minnesota.

A. Van Jordan, who was the judge for the 2016 Lindquist & Vennum Prize, is the author of four poetry collections: Rise, which won the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award; M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A, which was listed as one the Best Books of 2005 by the London Times; Quantum Lyrics; and The Cineaste. Jordan has been awarded a Whiting Writers Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He is also the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, and a United States Artists Fellowship. He is the Henry Rutgers Presidential Professor at Rutgers University-Newark. He lives in Newark, NJ.

Publisher: Milkweed Editions

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Chris Santiago, A. Van Jordan (Editor)

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Chris Santiago

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