Ipswich Public Library

The blue mimes, poems, Sara Daniele Rivera

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-83)

illustrations

no index present

poetry

The blue mimes

bibliography

1375537624

Sara Daniele Rivera

poems

"Sara Daniele Rivera's award-winning debut is a collection of sprawling elegy in the face of catastrophic grief, both personal and public. From the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election through the COVID-19 pandemic, these poems memorialize lost loved ones and meditate on the not-yet gone -- all while the wider-world loses its sense of connection, safety, and assurance. In those years of mourning, The Blue Mimes is a book of grounding and heartening resolve, even and especially in the states of uncertainty that define the human condition. Rivera's poems travel between Albuquerque, Lima, and Havana, deserts and coastlines and cities, Spanish and English -- between modes of language and culture that shape the contours of memory and expose the fault lines of the self. In those inevitable fractures, with honest, off-kilter precision, Rivera vividly renders the ways in which the bereft become approximations of themselves as a means of survival, mimicking the stilted actions of the people they once were. Where speech is not enough, this astonishing collection finds a radical practice in continued searching, endurance without promise -- the rifts in communion and incomplete pictures that afford the possibility to heal." --, Provided by publisher

I -- Earthworks -- Someone curls into themselves / Al borde del mar -- Keys -- January -- multi-nights -- The Split -- Rompecabezas -- summer at taos -- Resound -- Quilla -- Sonnet to Sleep Paralysis -- II -- Abrigar -- Poem for a Scorpion Child -- Sol -- Telephone Game -- Semillas de lúcuma -- With a Destructive Obsession -- Algodones -- Convento Santo Domingo -- Papi, Papá -- Resuscitation -- III -- Bird Sanctuary -- The Blue Mimes / Los mimos azules -- Naufragios -- The House It Is -- Birdsongs -- Fields Anointed with Poppies