Winner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, The Inheritance of Haunting, by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war, and survival. The driving forces behind Rhodes's work include a decolonizing ethos; a queer sensibility that extends beyond sexual and gender identities to include a politics of deviance; errantry; ramshackled bodies; and forms of loving and living that persist in their wild difference. Invoking individual and…mehr
Winner of the 2018 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, The Inheritance of Haunting, by Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, is a collection of poems contending with historical memory and its losses and gains carried within the body, wrought through colonization and its generations of violence, war, and survival. The driving forces behind Rhodes's work include a decolonizing ethos; a queer sensibility that extends beyond sexual and gender identities to include a politics of deviance; errantry; ramshackled bodies; and forms of loving and living that persist in their wild difference. Invoking individual and collective ghosts inherited across diverse geographies, this collection queers the space between past, present, and future. In these poems, haunting is a kind of memory weaving that can bestow a freedom from the attenuations of the so-called American dream, which, according to Rhodes, is a nightmare of assimilation, conquest, and genocide. How love unfolds is also a Big Bang emergence into life-a way to, again and again, cut the future open, open up the opening, undertake it, begin. These poems are written for immigrants, queer and transgender people of color, women, Latin Americans, diasporic communities, and the many impacted by war.
Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes is a queer, disabled, brown/Colombian poet, scholar, and cultural worker. Her poetry collection The Inheritance of Haunting explores intergenerational memory and postcolonial trauma. Most recently, she was a spring 2021 Mellon Arts Fellow at Yale's Center for the Study of Race, Indigeneity, and Transnational Migration. Her work has been published in Poetry, the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, Nat. Brut, Foglifter, and Waxwing, among other places.
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Foreword Part 1. El Otro Lado / The Other Side 1. the past is a candle in the temple of my mouth 2. the other side (I.) 3. scar 4. all your braids like a compass will bring us home 5. all that is left 6. where it begins 7. tristeza profunda 8. heard in the yes of gods 9. she who does not feel her name beneath her feet will wander, will wander 10. if I wear my hair this way 11. imbunche 12. 1901 13. blood of la mojana 14. the flower husband 15. purgatory 16. la llorona 17. the dream in which we die together 18. heresy in our bones 19. missionary 20. prayer for the children who will be born with today's daggers in their tomorrow eyes 21. the other side (II.) Part 2. Casi Pájaros / Almost Birds 1. dis-astre 2. when the machete will sever the ballad (memory-mourning for El Mozote) 3. fog 4. last balloon 5. eternal return 6. so far 7. the terror of clean 8. A11728 9. non-combat related incidents & other lies 10. elix/womb/house 11. what the bird has seen 12. like fish like song 13. little birds 14. onomasticon (I.) (or, I sing the names of our dead) 15. the ache on the tongue of the grieving 16. the value of sparrows 17. azan, or the call to prayer, o resistir es rezar que arrasamos el orden de arrancamiento, or when the sky opens & I am swallowed 18. 'til the taste of free in our mouths (brown baby lullaby) 19. for the boy who went to war & came back fire, came back song 20. fishbone Endnotes Gratitude
Foreword Part 1. El Otro Lado / The Other Side 1. the past is a candle in the temple of my mouth 2. the other side (I.) 3. scar 4. all your braids like a compass will bring us home 5. all that is left 6. where it begins 7. tristeza profunda 8. heard in the yes of gods 9. she who does not feel her name beneath her feet will wander, will wander 10. if I wear my hair this way 11. imbunche 12. 1901 13. blood of la mojana 14. the flower husband 15. purgatory 16. la llorona 17. the dream in which we die together 18. heresy in our bones 19. missionary 20. prayer for the children who will be born with today's daggers in their tomorrow eyes 21. the other side (II.) Part 2. Casi Pájaros / Almost Birds 1. dis-astre 2. when the machete will sever the ballad (memory-mourning for El Mozote) 3. fog 4. last balloon 5. eternal return 6. so far 7. the terror of clean 8. A11728 9. non-combat related incidents & other lies 10. elix/womb/house 11. what the bird has seen 12. like fish like song 13. little birds 14. onomasticon (I.) (or, I sing the names of our dead) 15. the ache on the tongue of the grieving 16. the value of sparrows 17. azan, or the call to prayer, o resistir es rezar que arrasamos el orden de arrancamiento, or when the sky opens & I am swallowed 18. 'til the taste of free in our mouths (brown baby lullaby) 19. for the boy who went to war & came back fire, came back song 20. fishbone Endnotes Gratitude
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