This Is Our Summons Now - Rodríguez, R. Joseph
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A summons, as a call, appears in everyday life and with urgency or as an order. It can be a demand to appear in person, a request for assistance, or an event or image to recall. A duty can take the form of a summons. These poems are a summons for the reader, but in various circumstances, forms, and occasions that include authority, power, or even a calling or command for a just world. The forces and voices in the poems sing and call for our attention to notice and to commune. Inspired by various poets and drawing on oral narratives and lyrical traditions, R. Joseph Rodríguez gathers the voices…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
A summons, as a call, appears in everyday life and with urgency or as an order. It can be a demand to appear in person, a request for assistance, or an event or image to recall. A duty can take the form of a summons. These poems are a summons for the reader, but in various circumstances, forms, and occasions that include authority, power, or even a calling or command for a just world. The forces and voices in the poems sing and call for our attention to notice and to commune. Inspired by various poets and drawing on oral narratives and lyrical traditions, R. Joseph Rodríguez gathers the voices of individuals and families woven into our histories and stories of becoming human. Within a poetic space, we are summoned to consider the worlds we inhabit and the ones we can imagine and create.
Autorenporträt
R. Joseph Rodríguez was born in Houston, Texas, in 1974. He has published various works as a poet, editor, essayist, literacy advocate, teacher educator, researcher, and translator. His poems have appeared in California English, English Journal, Flyway, New Square, Texas Observer, and various anthologies. He has held various occupations such as an advisor, busboy, butcher, community organizer, consultant, delicatessen clerk, editor, enumerator, food stocker, instructional coach, interpreter, landscape worker, literacy advocate, research analyst, school bus driver, teacher, and translator. Joseph earned degrees from Kenyon College, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Connecticut. Joseph is the founder of the literacy initiative named Libre con Libros. His recent work involves promoting more community poets in the schools for students and supporting teachers as scribes with their students. He is the recipient of awards and grants from the National Council of Teachers of English and National Endowment for the Humanities. Joseph lives in Austin and Fredericksburg, Texas. He can be reached via Twitter @escribescribe.