Ebook {Epub PDF} Catrachos: Poems by Roy G. Guzmán

read poems by this poet. Roy G. Guzmán was born in Honduras and raised in Miami, Florida. They received an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Guzmán is the author of the full-length collection Catrachos (Graywolf Press, ) and the chapbook Restored Mural for Orlando (Queerodactyl Press, ). The recipient of a Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship and a . 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 “Queerodactyl,” 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, Guzmán’s debut is a devastating .  · Roy G. Guzmán’s love of language is revealed in poems that intrigue, surprise, and seem to leap to life. It’s rare and difficult to do anything very new with the English language on a page: We’ve all been stretching and snapping this thing around since Chaucer. But when Roy G. Guzmán’s first book, Catrachos, landed on my desk, bits of it instantly leapt out at me as bits of light and bltadwin.ru: Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl.

Sell, buy or rent Catrachos: Poems , we buy used or new for best buyback price with FREE shipping and offer great deals for buyers. The breathtaking debut collection from one of America's most inventive new poetsA name for the people of Honduras, Catrachos is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching, riveting poems, Roy G. Guzmán reaches across borders—between life and death and between countries—invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative, part elegy, and part queer coming-of-age. Poetry as Archeology: Talking with Roy G. Guzmán. By Michael Kleber-Diggs. May 6th, "Catrachos," the titular poem in Roy G. Guzmán's debut collection, introduces a collection that is an examination of personal history, family history, queer history, and cultural history. It begins.

Roy G. Guzmán’s love of language is revealed in poems that intrigue, surprise, and seem to leap to life. It’s rare and difficult to do anything very new with the English language on a page: We’ve all been stretching and snapping this thing around since Chaucer. But when Roy G. Guzmán’s first book, Catrachos, landed on my desk, bits of it instantly leapt out at me as bits of light and life. CATRACHOS. Time blunts the crooked / to savage pews / Once / on the sibling stumps / of a beat Caribbean pine / my cousins invite me to sit / my legs fold like melted candles / if I’d worn the maracas / -sizzled skirt of my reveries / their beamed liturgy: / ¡Maricón! / ¡Maricón!. “Catrachos,” the titular poem in Roy G. Guzmán’s debut collection, introduces a collection that is an examination of personal history, family history, queer history, and cultural history. It begins: Time blunts the crooked / to savage pews / Once / on the sibling stumps / of a.