The Rivers Are Inside Our Homes
University of Notre Dame Press (Verlag)
978-0-268-20566-9 (ISBN)
These incandescent poems by Cuban American poet Victoria María Castells explore how we can salvage our notion of paradise in an overspent Eden. In thwarted homes located in Havana and Miami, Rapunzel and her prince, persecuted nymphs, Morgause, and Bluebeard’s wife speak to us directly, all in need of returning to safety. Confronting machismo, illness, heartbreak, and isolation, the poems depict how women are at the mercy of men, either husband or oligarch. Yet all generations of Cubans are bombarded with this need to return or to leave, to have both, to have neither.
Meanwhile, hurricane seasons add further instability to shelter and family, growing fiercer every year. Exile and displacement are accepted as permanent conditions. Latin America will mirror Cuba’s violent struggles as conquered land and despotic object. From the colonial desecrations to fraught revolutionary aftermath, the search for home is lyrically charted by this contradictory land of suffering and dreams. Through these poems, dictators, grandmothers, mythical characters, and buccaneers are given voices of equal strength, challenging what constitutes truth under a prism of fantasy and desire.
Victoria María Castells is a creative writing teacher in Miami, Florida. Her poems have appeared in Reservoir, The Journal, Quarter After Eight, Notre Dame Review, and other literary journals.
I.
Trilocation
February Fifteenth MDCCCXCVIII
Necropolis
To Make a Balsa Because You Have To
Hurricane Advice from Your Sister
Guardian
Andrew
Wishing Game
Migration
A Short Journey
CSS Stonewall Stationed in Havana Harbor
On Both Sides, Water
Che in Technicolor
Cuba, Boasted Rival of Swiss Chocolate
Go to the Smallest Room Right Now
Mothers’ Warnings
II.
Rupture, Alternating
Las Princesas Bailarinas
María Antonia
Homemaking
Tintagel
Caretaker
A Liking, Somewhat
On a Husband’s Next Family
Hot Season
Emergency
If the Water is Hot and Does Not Warm You
Maiden Without Hands in the Exile
III.
Key to the Indies
Camelot
Cajas de Muerto
Superpowered
A Ruler is Poseidon
The Pirate
How Can You Make a Communist Flower?
Diagnosis in Exile
Metamorphism
And for the Head, a Crown
Antilles Formation
The Rivers Are Inside Our Home
Shelter in Place
Havana Syndrome
Trump Meeting Kim Jong-Un
Abuelas
| Erscheinungsdatum | 08.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Notre Dame Review Book Prize |
| Verlagsort | Notre Dame IN |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte |
| ISBN-10 | 0-268-20566-3 / 0268205663 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-268-20566-9 / 9780268205669 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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