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Furious dusk [David Campos
"Rhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk, David Campos's winning collection, as "a work whose five parts trace a son's efforts--only partially successful--to fulfill his father's expectations and--perhaps even more difficult--understand those expectations enough to forgive them." The poet's reflections are catalyzed by learning of his father's impending death, which, in turn, forces him to examine his father's expectations against his own evolving concept of what it means to be a man. The poems' speaker sifts through his past to find the speckles of memory that highlight the pressures to fit the mold of masculinity forged both by the Mexican culture of his father and the American culture he inhabits. The problematic norms of both rip the speaker in two directions as he recounts his father's severe parenting, as he explores the inability to father a child, as he witnesses human suffering, as he overeats and confronts the effects on his body, and, finally, as he realizes what it means to transcend these expectations. The speaker's epiphany frees him to reject masculine stereotypes and allows him to see himself simply as a human being. That realization, in turn, enables the speaker to see his father not only as "father," "husband," and "man," but as a citizen of Earth. Through Campos's bold imagery and accessible language and themes, he memorably adds to the continuing conversation of the effects of cultural expectations on the children of immigrant parents"--
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monografia Rebiun28346391 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun28346391 m o d cr cnu|||unuuu 160316s2016 inu o 000 p eng d 9780268077051 0268077053 9780268023775 0268023778 UAM 991008079858404211 N$T eng rda pn N$T N$T P@U E7B OCLCF YDXCP COO EBLCP IDEBK CDX OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCA IDB MOR OCLCQ MERUC OCLCQ EZ9 AU@ OCLCQ JSTOR OCLCQ UNAV 811/.6 23 Campos, David 1984-) Poems. Selections Furious dusk Recurso electrónico] David Campos Notre Dame, Indiana University of Notre Dame Press 2015 Notre Dame, Indiana Notre Dame, Indiana University of Notre Dame Press 1 recurso electrónico 1 recurso electrónico EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Poems -- Part I -- Hunting -- Fourth-Grade Lunch -- Lion's Den -- Cast Iron -- To Sing -- Soccer Practice -- Drywall Dust -- The Call -- Part II -- After One Year of Trying -- Washing Dishes -- Inheritance -- Prayer -- Hollywood Endings -- Museum of Natural History -- Skin -- Need -- Part III -- Designated Driver -- I Make My First Delivery -- At the Entrance of a Back Alley -- Monster -- Molting -- A Wage-Claim Conference in Fresno -- At the Unemployment Office -- Wash -- Fences Part IVThirst -- Lizard Blood -- Stones -- Diet -- 330-Pound Man Exercises -- Bowl -- Pica -- The Measuring Tape of a Dressmaker -- Last Words -- The Stones from the Water -- Part V -- After Hearing of My Father's Passing -- Ars Poetica -- Where the Sirens Go -- Open Letter -- The Language of Masa -- I Left You a Note -- Addressing a Letter to My Father -- Birthday Dinner -- He Holds Out His Hands -- Lost Letter to Kees -- Dusk "Rhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk, David Campos's winning collection, as "a work whose five parts trace a son's efforts--only partially successful--to fulfill his father's expectations and--perhaps even more difficult--understand those expectations enough to forgive them." The poet's reflections are catalyzed by learning of his father's impending death, which, in turn, forces him to examine his father's expectations against his own evolving concept of what it means to be a man. The poems' speaker sifts through his past to find the speckles of memory that highlight the pressures to fit the mold of masculinity forged both by the Mexican culture of his father and the American culture he inhabits. The problematic norms of both rip the speaker in two directions as he recounts his father's severe parenting, as he explores the inability to father a child, as he witnesses human suffering, as he overeats and confronts the effects on his body, and, finally, as he realizes what it means to transcend these expectations. The speaker's epiphany frees him to reject masculine stereotypes and allows him to see himself simply as a human being. That realization, in turn, enables the speaker to see his father not only as "father," "husband," and "man," but as a citizen of Earth. Through Campos's bold imagery and accessible language and themes, he memorably adds to the continuing conversation of the effects of cultural expectations on the children of immigrant parents"-- Provided by publisher Forma de acceso: World Wide Web