作品情報

家と記憶を、静かな詩の断章でつないでいく。

日常の情景に根を下ろした詩が、家族史や移民の記憶をやわらかく抱え込む。短い形式の中に、帰属と喪失の感覚が濃く残る。

書籍情報

出版社

Bilingual Pr

発売日

1993-05-01

ページ数

85ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.24 x 1.27 x 21.59 cm

ISBN-13

9780927534369

ISBN-10

0927534363

価格

6058 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American

Each of these narrative poems in The History of Home encapsulate the real world of childhood: they are gritty, but at the same time they reveal a kind of honest innocence. We meet the Sisters of Charity who belittle their students, a retarded neighbor who entertains children with his flexible joints, and boys who dream of the power of Spanish fly. In spite of the poverty and hardship that form the backdrop for most of these poems, the characters here do find joy - as when a group of boys discovers that with a nickel and a coat hanger they can play pinball all afternoon, a quiet girl beats Sister Ann at tetherball, and Kenny surreptitiously wears basketball knee pads to spare himself the discomfort of hours of kneeling during a retreat. It is in these moments that Quintana allows his characters to transcend their lives and experience flashes of true grace.

Leroy V. Quintana is an associate professor of English at San Diego Mesa College in California.

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