{"product_id":"the-inheritance-of-haunting-9780268105372","title":"The Inheritance of Haunting","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInvoking individual and collective ghosts inherited across diverse geographies, Rhodes' poetry collection queers the space between past, present, and future through generations of violence, war, and survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book—historical, mystical, fiercely alive—is a book of laments that are also geographies, words that are also figures, perforations, marks ferrying the dead, the dead who have taught this poet how to read the air, the scar, the hair. Traces of the lost in what is not lost. And (\u003ci\u003ethis\u003c\/i\u003e is the thing!) the poems themselves are signals and routes. A song repeats, \u003ci\u003ereminds\u003c\/i\u003e us of our Befores as they worked toward getting free, getting us free. These poems are a part of that same long song. Spell, testimony, strategy, prayer. They flood me with courage and attention. From somewhere under the paper comes a sound: 'this is how you read. \/ this is how we arm you in the language. . . '\" —Aracelis Girmay, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Black Maria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Inheritance of Haunting\u003c\/i\u003e honors the legacies of our dead, traces a connective tissue across suffering from the Andes to Palestine. But instead of only noticing suffering, this book is a canto 'with roots too deep to measure.' Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes's first collection is a spell that disintegrates carnivorous colonizers and locates 'the go back to where you came from when there is nowhere but here.' Rhodes transforms history into a reminder about 'how hard we fought for here, this simple morning.' Behold: 'the holy songs of trees.'\" —Vickie Vértiz, author of \u003ci\u003ePalm Frond with Its Throat Cut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This collection is a rumination on the memories, the violence and the acts of liberation that live in the body across generations of colonization, war, and upheaval. . . . Representing the voices of individual and collective ghosts from across Latin America, this collection asks us to account for the past and to celebrate the lives that come after.\" —\u003ci\u003eElectric Lit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Restrepo Rhodes’s \u003ci\u003eThe Inheritance of Haunting\u003c\/i\u003e stands out, at least to this reader, as an aesthetically potent and ethically rigorous work with unrivaled incantatory powers. . . . [Its] poetics are akin to a cathartically rich espiritismo séance—and, as a caribeño, I don’t use these words lightly.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Rumpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A brutal, but necessary, unveiling of violence and the ghosts we carry with us daily, \u003ci\u003eThe Inheritance of Haunting\u003c\/i\u003e sings the unbearable and still makes a claim for survival. These are intricate poems that are odes to the women who have come before us, odes to the women who have been silenced by fear, and odes to the ‘wreckage of centuries.’ With language that is alive, inventive, sound-driven, and ricocheting with power, this is a fierce and breathtaking collection that risks calling for a great reckoning with our collective past.” — Ada Limón, author of \u003ci\u003eBright Dead Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 1. El Otro Lado \/ The Other Side\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. the past is a candle in the temple of my mouth\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. the other side (I.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. scar\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. all your braids like a compass will bring us home\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. all that is left\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. where it begins\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. tristeza profunda\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. heard in the yes of gods\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. she who does not feel her name beneath her feet will wander, will wander\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. if I wear my hair this way\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. imbunche\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. 1901\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. blood of la mojana\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. the flower husband\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. purgatory\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. la llorona\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. the dream in which we die together\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. heresy in our bones\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. missionary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. prayer for the children who will be born with today’s daggers in their tomorrow eyes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21. the other side (II.)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePart 2. Casi Pájaros \/ Almost Birds\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. dis-astre\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. when the machete will sever the ballad (memory-mourning for El Mozote)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. fog\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. last balloon\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. eternal return\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. so far\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. the terror of clean\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. A11728\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. non-combat related incidents \u0026amp; other lies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. elix\/womb\/house\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. what the bird has seen\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. like fish like song\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. little birds\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. onomasticon (I.) (or, I sing the names of our dead)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. the ache on the tongue of the grieving\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16. the value of sparrows\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17. azan, or the call to prayer, o resistir es rezar que arrasamos el orden de arrancamiento, or when the sky opens \u0026amp; I am swallowed\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18. ‘til the taste of free in our mouths (brown baby lullaby)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19. for the boy who went to war \u0026amp; came back fire, came back song\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20. fishbone\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEndnotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGratitude\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400751587671,"sku":"9780268105372","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780268105372.jpg?v=1730471473","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-inheritance-of-haunting-9780268105372","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}