Banana [ ]

Banana [ ] - Paperback

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Banana [ ] - Paperback

Banana [ ] - Paperback

by Paul Hlava Ceballos
$18.00
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Winner, 2021 Donald Hall Prize for Poetry Finalist, 2022 NBCC Award for Poetry Winner, 2023 Poetry Society of America Norma Farber First Book Award Finalist, 2023 Washington State Book Award in Poetry

The poems in Paul Hlava Ceballos's debut collection banana [ ] reveal the extractive relationship the United States has with the Americas and its people through poetic portraits of migrants, family, and personal memories. At the heart of the book is a long poem that traces the history of bananas in Latin America using only found text from sources such as history books, declassified CIA documents, and commercials. The book includes collage, Ecuadorian decimas, a sonnet series in the voices of Incan royalty at the moment of colonization, and a long poem interspersed with photos and the author's mother's bilingual idioms. Traversing language and borders, history and story, traditional and invented forms, this book guides us beyond survival to love.
ISBN9780822966937
Author Paul Hlava Ceballos
PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages112
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Paul Hlava Ceballos

Paul Hlava Ceballos has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Artist Trust, and the Poets House. His work has been published in POETRY, Pleiades, Triquarterly, Poetry Northwest, and BOMB, among other journals and newspapers. His collaborative chapbook, Banana [ ] / we pilot the blood shares pages with Quenton Baker, Dr. Christina Sharpe, and Torkwase Dyson. He received his MFA from New York University and currently lives in Seattle.

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