
- 174 pages
- English
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Words Chosen for the Wall
About this book
Words Chosen for the Wallis poetry testifying to the deepest elements in the American dream casting a light on cultural diversity, experiences of exclusion and belonging, and the walls of dividing hostility in society. It explores new paths that leap for unity, empathy, and hope. In this collection, poems give voice to experiences in a divided world and reach for beauty, unity, and emotional clarity. Like graffiti on walls, the poems call out various and different kinds of abuses and visions of life to quote Eliot "at the still point of the turning world." Each poem creates a space for the reader to bring their own baggage to a setting that questions idealized notions of community by offering lyrical words that speak to realities that are often ignored, or worse, forgotten. In this work, poems guide readers to the terrain of imagination that is a fine tool for repairing what is broken in society and that ceaselessly pleads for a solidarity of difference. These poems motivate dreams of a different existence and decolonize the imagination from the limitations of a single culture and understanding of life together.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Superior
- The Islands
- Tyrants
- Treasure
- Gaza
- October
- Rivers
- Fine Day
- Evening
- Amor
- Decolonial
- New Americans
- Conversion
- Headstone
- Lady
- Migrant Child
- The Poor
- Tired
- Moon
- The Country
- Flea Market
- Awake
- Savior, Savior
- Return
- The Massacre
- Campesinos
- Self-Portrait
- Sacred Mother
- Restless
- Broken English Dream
- The Botanica
- Solitude
- The Knot
- Things
- The Steps
- Harlem Days
- The Morning
- Evening
- Speech
- The Junkie
- Hanging Out
- Together
- The Caravan
- The Gift
- The Martyr
- Silence
- The Trip
- Airport
- Baroque
- Waiting Room
- Zip Gun
- The Tenement
- The Letter
- The Backyard
- Flaco
- Machu Picchu
- Today
- Old Church
- The Nation
- The Cart
- The Skiff
- Sleep
- Waiting
- The Boy
- Homecoming
- The Bridge
- Kitchen Sink
- The Innocent
- Terror
- The Slaughter
- Words
- The End
- Night
- Shots
- The Story
- Moonlight
- Waiting
- River Bank
- Jimmy
- The Veteran
- Psalm 71
- Darkness
- Certainty
- The Child
- The Library
- Cloudy
- Christmas Carol
- Frosty
- Daughter
- Times Square
- Remember
- Abandoned
- Perspective
- Christmas
- Piety
- Nuestra SeƱora
- The Wall
- Seasonal Letter
- The Walk
- Lament
- Deus, ubi es
- New Year
- Waiting
- The Season
- Listen
- Potomac River
- Valentineās Day
- Snowy Day
- Catholic School
- Americano
- The Visitor
- Breakfast
- Father
- Swimming Hole
- The Future
- Sunday
- The Stench
- The Walk
- The Boys
- Lost
- The Kids
- The Call
- Fashion
- Few Words
- Little Girl
- Love
- Confession
- Sleepless
- The Prison
- Books
- Sweetness
- Still Voice
- Twists
- Morning
- Crucifixion
- Mr. Ex-President
- Romero
- The Woods
- Speak
- Memory
- Touch
- El Salvador
- Faces
- Spanish Kind
- Vida
- Illness
- Disappeared
- Strange
- Citizens Beware
- For Heavenās Sake
- Good Friday
- Jazz
- The Child
- The Block
- Piety
- Hidden