In the preface to his first book, a lyrical epic on the violent convergences of colonialisms on Guam (Japanese and American), history, family, and ...
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Dec 21, 2011
Janice
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"from Unincorporated Territory [hacha]" by Craig Santos Perez uses text to paint a picture of the past of Guahan (Guam), a nation/place/location/home and its relationship to colonizing countries like the U.S., Spain and Japan. Considering the playful and experimental form of the poetry, we see and feel the confusion as well as the agitation that surrounds an experience of reading and familiarizing ourselves with this nation whose control and sovereignty is in constant flux.
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Dec 19, 2008
wow - i heard him read at uc berkeley holloway series last yr, and just last wknd at small press distribution open house & had the privilege of posing for his levitating somewhere behind the hairlines of lyn hejinian and michael palmer . the reading in the context of just having read j. spahr "the transformation" and visiting the presidio exhibit on the american war in the philipines . what may come of propaganda, the war machine & colonialism digested in poetics is perez tho i h
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Aug 07, 2010
Engaged the whole time.
Also found it utterly eerie to read some of the same passages I used in Pigafetta here, many of the same concerns & method for delivery--long lines, fragments, Pacific Island Colonialism/occupation. It's like discovering some sort of reverse cousin. Nice.
Also found it utterly eerie to read some of the same passages I used in Pigafetta here, many of the same concerns & method for delivery--long lines, fragments, Pacific Island Colonialism/occupation. It's like discovering some sort of reverse cousin. Nice.
Nov 08, 2008
Rodney
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With Unincorporated Territory, C.S. Perez works to repair the fallen bridges between poetry and collective memory. Part history primer, part Olsonesque exploration of place, part sermon on the U.S. denial of its own imperial involvements, this first of twelve installments worries the gap between orality and literacy, documentary transcription and a feeling for poetry as an act of collective resistance to erasure. Langston Hughes and Pablo Neruda suggest some of the moral coordinates of Perez’s p
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Jan 10, 2009
Steven
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The enforced tongue searching for its original rhythm stitching past to present to future with a fragmented light which blinds and shines upon the examination and making of identity, beneath the ribcage the unsilenced aorta-- this book the pulse.
Nov 13, 2008
Nicholas
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Magnificent. Intelligent and deeply emotional engagement. More will be said.
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