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Wonderful wasteland and other natural disasters : poems /

When Hurricane María unleashed its devastation onto Puerto Rico, thousands of lives were lost to the storm in what was the island's worst natural disaster on record. With so much of the recovery still underway and the scars still fresh, its citizens continue to contend with the reality that li...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: La Torre Lagares, Elidio, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, [2019]
Colección:University Press of Kentucky new poetry and prose series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; tradition and individual impotence; natural disaster #5: cardborigami; a severed morning after the hurricane; matter and decay; miramelindas; bird narcissus; diesel phantoms; natural disaster #6: of mountains and grandmas; refugee; leaving a country on a paper boat; moon jelly in an empty aquarium; a theory of you in the flood; deadwood; still life with red shoes; music for a water piano; unnesting rituals; story with the face of midnight; gloomy wednesday; natural disaster #3: becoming my father; cafuné, or bust; lichen
  • Dead father in the stormi guan a dream (mating season); tempestuous; natural disaster #7: los muertos; ghost in a seashell; commodified; water and memory; hope is a thing with fetters; natural disaster #1: there will be mud; desolation like sushi; elon; natural disaster #2: wooden fish ears; blue flood; damnedificados; the homogeneity of darkness; killing time on a dead afternoon; natural disaster #4: broken people; presson; baquiné for Puerto Rico; Acknowledgments; Notes; Series Page