{"product_id":"might-kindred-paperback-softback-9781496232397","title":"Might Kindred (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496232397","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eMight Kindred\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMónica Gomery (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496232397\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e94 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"These generous and sensitive meditations on belonging and the first-generation experience cast intimate light on shared human experiences.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“What I found in this collection is not only an invitation to belong, but a reassurance that the self has always been unequivocally whole even if we must journey forward and back through time to come to that understanding.”-S.M. Badawi, \u003ci\u003eWaxwing Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“Into this collection’s longing arms Gomery gathers all matter of kin and all kin of matter: landscapes, stones, ‘unsiblings,’ creation myths, God, language, home, bodies, soil, dignity, ‘jagged verges,’ mirrors, and eyes. She grapples: What are we to do in a world where loss is certain, time is defiant, and the self aches to transcend its borders? Instead of offering us synthetic answers Gomery’s poems arrive ‘bare skinned on the bridge between thinking and knowing.’ This book is an invitation, a constellation, a map. We are lucky, lucky victims of its grandeur.”-Shira Erlichman, author of \u003ci\u003eOdes to Lithium \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“‘If you take a child to the mountain,’ writes MÓnica Gomery in \u003ci\u003eMight Kindred\u003c\/i\u003e, ‘do not expect the mountain to not live inside the child.’ Reader, you and I are the child. This collection is the mountain. Expect nothing less than to be forever changed.”-Nicole Sealey, author of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Beast\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eEric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The poems of \u003ci\u003eMight Kindred\u003c\/i\u003e wonder aloud: can we belong to one another, and “can a people belong to a dreaming machine?” Conjuring mountains and bodies of water, queer and immigrant poetics, beloveds both human and animal, MÓnica Gomery explores the intimately personal and the possibility of a collective voice. Here anthems are sung and fall apart midsong. The speaker exchanges letters with her ancestors, is visited by a shadow sister, and interrogates what it means to make a home as a first-generation American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the Raz\/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the poems in \u003ci\u003eMight Kindred\u003c\/i\u003e are rooted in the body and its cousins, seeking the possibility of kinship, “in case we might kindness, might ardor together.” Belonging and unbelonging are claimed as part of the same complicated whole, and Gomery’s intersections reach for something divine at the center.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSelf-Portrait with Airplane Turbulence\u003cbr\u003e Theology\u003cbr\u003e Emblanquecer\u003cbr\u003e Immigrant Elegy for \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003eAacute\u003cbr\u003evila\u003cbr\u003e Family Is an Illumination of Shoulders\u003cbr\u003e Ghazal for a First Lover\u003cbr\u003e Might Kindred\u003cbr\u003e Prologue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When My Sister Visits\u003cbr\u003e Here\u003cbr\u003e God Queers the Mountain\u003cbr\u003e It Isn’\u003cbr\u003et Easy to Speak\u003cbr\u003e Falling Out\u003cbr\u003e A Poem with Two Memories of Venezuela\u003cbr\u003e Letter to Myself from My Great Grandmother\u003cbr\u003e Origin Stories\u003cbr\u003e Abecedario\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When My Sister Visits\u003cbr\u003e After Pulse\u003cbr\u003e The Synagogue Membership Assembles to Discuss the Fascist Presidency\u003cbr\u003e Imaginative Exercise in the Study of Epigenetics\u003cbr\u003e Dendrochronology of Hair\u003cbr\u003e Ode to the Poop Bag\u003cbr\u003e The Oldest Form of Prayer\u003cbr\u003e Now We Live Together\u003cbr\u003e Because It Is Elul\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When My Sister Visits\u003cbr\u003e We Thanked Her by Digging a Hole\u003cbr\u003e Fragments of an Anthem\u003cbr\u003e Banishing Loneliness\u003cbr\u003e Here\u003cbr\u003e A Poem About a Book About Venezuela\u003cbr\u003e Sleeping in Hurricane Season\u003cbr\u003e Emblanquecer\u003cbr\u003e Ghazal for a Year\u003cbr\u003e Halleluyah\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We Walked Dahlias to Her Front Porch\u003cbr\u003e I Thought I Was Done Writing About My Dead\u003cbr\u003e Ghazal for God \u0026amp;\u003cbr\u003e Wellbutrin\u003cbr\u003e The Poet Considers If Her Body Belongs to Her\u003cbr\u003e When My Sister Visits\u003cbr\u003e Here\u003cbr\u003e Love Letter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52600022532376,"sku":"9781496232397","price":13.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/might-kindred-paperback-softback-9781496232397","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}