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About this book
AUTHOR OF AWARD-WINNING I WAS A BELL
M. Soledad Caballero explores the complexities of the body, delving into themes such as cancer, memory, and love in a lyrical collection of poems you won’t want to miss.
“This stunning book is an elegy for the body before, an ode for the body after.”–Carmen Giménez, author of Be Recorder
“Masterfully uses visceral language and vivid imagery to hold space for both sorrow and hope, beauty and pain, the light and the dark, the water and the land.”–Jasminne Mendez, author of City Without Altar
In this inventive collection, cancer transforms the body, art ignites healing, and faith is a restless vexation.
Flight Plan charts the trajectories of bodies and birds, navigating the dynamic interplay of past, present, and what happens in the in-between. These lyrical poems map the aftermaths of cancer, the varied routes of migration, and the geographies of memory. They document stories of love and its legacies, personal, familial, and national. They reject reductive diagnoses and soar and hunt with birds of prey. In this inventive collection, cancer transforms the body, art ignites healing, and faith is a restless vexation. M. Soledad Caballero urges us to remember that women’s aging bodies are evocative, that disease is a hungry creature, and that the interstices of blood and flesh are universes teeming with possibility.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Dedication
- Contents
- Let Emptiness Be the Prize
- On the Phone with My Mother after She Watches the News
- All I Have Are Elegies
- Bonebreakers
- Adjustment Disorder, Part I
- Gravity, or after the Plane Crashes
- Myths We Tell
- Aubade for Ricardo
- Dear Poem,
- 1978
- Flying, a list
- Ode to Kody
- Stage Two
- El Rio Bravo del Norte
- Follow-Up
- Of Names and Numbers
- Writing Poetry after Turning 46
- When We Lost Our Kingdom
- At the Museum during Chemo, an ekphrasis
- All Love Stories Are Death Stories
- I Continue My Love Affair
- I Dream of Abuela during the Pandemic
- Writing Prompt
- Mixed Tapes
- A Burning
- CV of Failures
- Education
- Horses
- Cancer is
- The Myths We Live
- Chemotherapy
- Agnostic at 47
- Movie Memories
- My Blue Blue Heart
- How Grendel Tells the Story
- When We Still Believed
- In Pennsylvania
- Ghosts Don’t Live by Our Rules
- Hepatology Appointment
- When Ester Came to America
- Before an MRI, a Questionnaire
- The Jesus I Could Know
- When We Won Blue Jays at the Aviary
- My Hands
- The Mirage
- Oddfellows 215
- Notes
- Gratitude
- Biographical Note
- Back Cover