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Sightseer in This Killing City

Sightseer in This Killing City

Eugene Gloria
3.8/5 ( ratings)
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Eugene Gloria’s fourth collection of poetry captures the surreal and unreal feelings of the present. Through the voice of Nacirema, the central persona of the collection, who is a Filipina American woman with an ambiguous sexual identity, we are introduced to a character who chooses mystery and inhabits landscapes fraught with brutality and beauty. Flawed like America, Nacirema embodies ideas of wanderlust and self-discovery. In poems that recount her journey, Gloria invokes the spirit of 1970s soul music and of jazz, blending the urban lament of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane with the idiom of Stevie Wonder and Fela Kuti. Sightseer in This Killing City argues for grace and perseverance in these strange times.
Language
English
Pages
96
Format
ebook
Publisher
Penguin Books
Release
June 04, 2019
ISBN
0525505644
ISBN 13
9780525505648

Sightseer in This Killing City

Eugene Gloria
3.8/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Eugene Gloria’s fourth collection of poetry captures the surreal and unreal feelings of the present. Through the voice of Nacirema, the central persona of the collection, who is a Filipina American woman with an ambiguous sexual identity, we are introduced to a character who chooses mystery and inhabits landscapes fraught with brutality and beauty. Flawed like America, Nacirema embodies ideas of wanderlust and self-discovery. In poems that recount her journey, Gloria invokes the spirit of 1970s soul music and of jazz, blending the urban lament of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane with the idiom of Stevie Wonder and Fela Kuti. Sightseer in This Killing City argues for grace and perseverance in these strange times.
Language
English
Pages
96
Format
ebook
Publisher
Penguin Books
Release
June 04, 2019
ISBN
0525505644
ISBN 13
9780525505648

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