Insides She Swallowed
A sensuous poetry collection that links motherhood, the body, labor, art, and politics through intense and compressed imagery.
Work Information
Body and language burn with the same heat.
The poems move through the experiences of being a mother, a poet, and a daughter in a fragmented but continuous voice. Their compression gives the book its force.
Book Information
- Publisher
- West End Pr
- Published
- 2010-01-31
- Pages
- 64 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 0.64 x 22.23 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780981669380
- ISBN-10
- 0981669387
- Price
- 13712 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
p>Passionate and sensuous to the limit of synesthesia, these poems address both the mind and body of the reader. A verbal magician, a show-stopping performer, the author educates, stimulates, and moves us through her realization and empowerment of images. Her love of family, familiarity with death, sexualization of everyday life, politics of liberation--these themes are transformed before our eyes into kindling and fed to a flame of such intensity as is rarely to be found in contemporary poetry.
Sasha Pimentel Chacón was born in Manila. She teaches literature and composition in El Paso, Texas, with her husband, Chicano writer Daniel Chacón. She is a recipient of the Philip Levine Fellowship in Poetry and an Academy of American Poets Prize. Her poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Colorado Review , and The Dos Passos Review among others. Her poetry chapbook, Blood Sister , was published in 2006. She was a featured reader at the San Francisco Poetry Fest in the summer of 2009.
Reviews
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amazing poet
This is a book of poems that I bought a while back and have returned to often. A great poet and a wonderful collection. Looking forward to her next book.
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Great poetry! Pimentel has a way with words that ...
Great poetry! Pimentel has a way with words that focuses on what is unsaid as much as what is said.