Description
Book SynopsisBoth 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: PoemsTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Kyrie
- 2. Poder
- 3. OTM or Other Than Mexican
- 4. Naturalization
- 5. Amending Wall
- 6. The 21st Century Poem
