Late to the Search Party: Poems

Late to the Search Party: Poems

by Steven Espada Dawson
ISBN: 1668081563
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"The unsettled border between absence and presence haunts this stunning collection, in which Steven Espada Dawson contemplates belonging, identity, and grief in poems about his half-immigrant Mexican American family: his dying mother who raised him, his addict brother who has been missing for more than a decade, and his absent father. What does it mean to be a family of one--to be orphaned, whether by fate or by circumstance? In language that is both grounded and ethereal, Dawson tallies the losses and looks at what remains: the frustration and anger, the bewilderment and sadness--and the affection and humor that make themselves felt in spite of everything"--Page 4 of cover.

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