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Both reverent and daring, this collection of verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written as a call to action, the collection pulls together prayer, popular culture, and technology to tell a twenty-first-century migrant story.

Trade Review
['OTM'] transcends the list poem so far as to create its own unique form. This is the form of all of Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s work. The conclusion
of his poem 'Poder' describes and defines this original form: 'moving us farther and farther / away from the world being just rhetoric, / into the structure of its design . . . / knowing this too is poetry.' Reader, this is poetry." —Ed Roberson, from the introduction "Darrel Holnes captures beautifully the deep investment in hope (and in the divine) that immigrants must make, and the deeper investment in themselves that fuels their hope. And with vibrant images, compelling narratives, and witty and affective turns of phrase, he sings the ambivalence of arrival and the shifting blues of self-making. Migrant Psalms is a wise and soulful debut, a gem of a book." —Khaled Mattawa, author of Fugitive Atlas: Poems

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Kyrie
  • 2. Poder
  • 3. OTM or Other Than Mexican
  • 4. Naturalization
  • 5. Amending Wall
  • 6. The 21st Century Poem

Migrant Psalms Poems Drinking Gourd Chapbook

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      Publisher Northwestern University Press
      Published 30 March 2021
      ISBN-13 9780810143586
      978-0810143586
      ISBN-10 0810143585

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Both reverent and daring, this collection of verse interrogates religion, race, class, family, and sexuality. Written as a call to action, the collection pulls together prayer, popular culture, and technology to tell a twenty-first-century migrant story.

      Trade Review
      ['OTM'] transcends the list poem so far as to create its own unique form. This is the form of all of Darrel Alejandro Holnes’s work. The conclusion
      of his poem 'Poder' describes and defines this original form: 'moving us farther and farther / away from the world being just rhetoric, / into the structure of its design . . . / knowing this too is poetry.' Reader, this is poetry." —Ed Roberson, from the introduction "Darrel Holnes captures beautifully the deep investment in hope (and in the divine) that immigrants must make, and the deeper investment in themselves that fuels their hope. And with vibrant images, compelling narratives, and witty and affective turns of phrase, he sings the ambivalence of arrival and the shifting blues of self-making. Migrant Psalms is a wise and soulful debut, a gem of a book." —Khaled Mattawa, author of Fugitive Atlas: Poems

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • 1. Kyrie
      • 2. Poder
      • 3. OTM or Other Than Mexican
      • 4. Naturalization
      • 5. Amending Wall
      • 6. The 21st Century Poem

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