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Luisa Igloria - Juan Luna's Revolver (ND Ernest Sandeen Prize Poetry) - 9780268031787 - V9780268031787
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Juan Luna's Revolver (ND Ernest Sandeen Prize Poetry)

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Description for Juan Luna's Revolver (ND Ernest Sandeen Prize Poetry) Paperback. A collection of poems that both addresses history and attempts to transcend it through its exploration of the complexity of diaspora. It traces journeys made by Filipinos in the global diaspora that began since the encounter with European and American colonial power. Series: Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 181.

The poems in Juan Luna' s Revolver both address history and attempt to transcend it through their exploration of the complexity of diaspora. Attending to the legacy of colonial and postcolonial encounters, Luisa A. Igloria has crafted poems that create links of sympathetic human understanding, even as they revisit difficult histories and pose necessary questions about place, power, displacement, nostalgia, beauty, and human resilience in conditions of alienation and duress.

Igloria traces journeys made by Filipinos in the global diaspora that began since the encounter with European and American colonial power. Her poems allude to historical figures such as ... Read more

Suffused with gorgeous imagery and nuanced emotion, Igloria's poetry achieves an intimacy fostered by gem-like phrases set within a politically-charged context speaking both to the personal and the collective.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Ernest Sandeen Prize in Poetry
Number of Pages
110
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268031787
SKU
V9780268031787
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Ref
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About Luisa Igloria
Luisa A. Igloria is an associate professor in the MFA creative writing program at Old Dominion University. The winner of numerous national and international creative writing awards, she is the author of nine books.

Reviews for Juan Luna's Revolver (ND Ernest Sandeen Prize Poetry)
"In Juan Luna's Revolver, Luisa Igloria establishes herself as a singular and revelatory voice in American poetry. Here, she explores the dichotomy of Filipino: interwoven yet hermetically singular, acquisitive yet inventive, docile yet amok. Her engrossing poems hide, behind their gorgeous scrims, a bristling wall of spears." —Sabina Murray, author of Forgery, A Carnivore's Inquiry, and The Caprices “When I ... Read more

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