Shadowboxing: Poems & Impersonations
チカーノの青年ホセフォを中心に、ボクシング、労働階級のカリフォルニア、家族の声、文学的引用を混ぜるデビュー詩集。詩、対話、散文がぶつかり合い、自己を演じることの痛みと滑稽さを描く。
作品情報
拳のリズムで、労働と家族と言葉の記憶が打ち合う。
Omnidawn から刊行された詩集。演劇的な形式と口語的な勢いで、中央カリフォルニアの労働者階級の記憶を描く。
レビュー要約
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形式の大胆さと語りの勢いが高く評価されている。荒々しさと知的な引用が同時に走ることで、独特のデビュー作として記憶される。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Omnidawn Pub
- 発売日
- 2017-10-03
- ページ数
- 95ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 15.24 x 1.02 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781632430434
- ISBN-10
- 1632430436
- 価格
- 3210 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American
Borrowing the poetic language found in boxing lore and in the Rocky films, Shadowboxing pieces together a poetic portrait of Josefo, a Chicano adolescent working and becoming a poet in the farm territories of Central California. Rios confounds the relationship between author, speaker, and subject within various forms and, at times, across genre. He challenges the usefulness of poetry and stands upon oral histories to demystify Californias overlooked labor class. Rios invites the reader to enter Josefos world of memory, experience, and talk, of packinghouse mentors, storytelling grandmothers, parable-sharing plumbers, smooth talking truck drivers, and infinitely patient literature professors.
JOSEPH RIOS was born in Clovis, California. He is a VONA alumnus, a Macondo fellow, and a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Los Angeles.
レビュー
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Ríos is true to his roots and is a great poet !
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Rarely does a book of poetry grip me the way Shadowboxing did. It's tough and tender and tragic and true. It's funny, too. Read this book.
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This collection blew me away. Such a powerful piece of writing.
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It is the right book, edition and condition, that I need for my college semester this fall. This book will be very helpful.
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