Research Catalog

Title

From unincorporated territory [saina] / Craig Santos Perez.

Author

Santos Perez, Craig

Publication

Richmond, Calif. : Omnidawn pub., c2010.

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Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

133 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

From unincorporated territory [saina] continues Craig Santos Perez’s epic investigation of Chamorro culture, language, and identity. It is by turns ferocious and elegiac, historical and lyrical; it is a book of generations, of sedimentary language, of the ability and power to say “us,” of how a human family might actually be claimed. Filled with tidal spaces, broken by waves, garlanded by islands of brilliant attention and sub-surface groundings, Perez’s poem convenes an oceanic poetics. But if the indigenous canoe that sails through the book is freighted with immigration and emigration, colonialism and national piracies, its real cargo remains cultural authority and the incontestable wonder of origin. Ancestors weep and dance to have generated such creative reclamation as this poem achieves. Perez inherits, inhabits… and a great poem flows…

Alternative Title

Saina

Subject

• Chamorro (Micronesian people) > Poetry
• Guam > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Poetry.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: one -- from sourcings -- from tidelands -- ginen preterrain -- from all with ocean views -- from aerial roots -- ginen organic acts -- from aerial roots -- from preterrain -- ginen all with ocean views -- from tidelands -- two -- from sourcings -- ginen tidelands -- from preterrain -- from all with ocean views -- from aerial roots.

ISBN

• 9781890650469 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1890650463 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2009050953

OCLC

489257243

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library