Catrachos: Poems - Paperback
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9761644450231
ISBN
9781644450239

Catrachos: Poems

$16.00
Author
Guzman, Roy

The breathtaking debut collection from one of Americaā€™s most inventive new poets
A name for the people of Honduras, Catrachos is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching, riveting poems, Roy G. GuzmĆ”n reaches across bordersā€”between life and death and between countriesā€”invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age story, Catrachos finds its own religion in fantastic figures such as the X-Men, pop singers, and the ā€œQueerodactyl,ā€ which is imagined in a series of poems as a dinosaur sashaying in the shadow of an oncoming comet, insistent on surviving extinction. With exceptional energy, humor, and inventiveness, GuzmĆ”nā€™s debut is a devastating display of lyrical and moral complexityā€”an introduction to an immediately captivating, urgently needed voice.

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