Saenz, Benjamin Alire

The book of what remains / Benjamin Alire Sáenz - Port Townsend, Wash. : Copper Canyon Press , c2010. - vii, 125 p. ; 23 cm.

Book of war and living. Meditation on living in the desert no. 1 ; Confessions: my father, hummingbirds, and Frantz Fanon ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 2 ; Good man is hard to find ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 3 ; I approach Mr. Max about visiting Bigger Thomas in jail ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 4 ; Knowledge: the hand of another ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 5 ; What to do with Lenin's body ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 6 ; Philosophy of work (an essay) ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 7 ; Comforts of the neighborhood ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 8 ; Prayer in the garden -- Book of eschatologies. Prayer in the garden ; Ruined cities of my broken, broken heart ; Prayer in the garden -- Book of what remains. Meditation on living in the desert no. 9 ; After the dying ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 10 ; Meditations on music, Joseph McCarthy, and my grandfather ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 11 ; How in the night (and the meaning of your life) ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 12 ; Arriving at the heart of tragedy ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 13 ; Translating the universe, or Morning of the lunar eclipse ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 14 ; Last summer in the garden ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 15 ; What I have to sing about ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 16 ; What remains ; Meditation on living in the desert no. 17 ; True and perfect sound ; Last meditation on living in the desert.

9781556592973

2009041600


Mexican Americans---Poetry


Mexican-American Border Region----Poetry

PS3569.A27 / B66 2010

811.54 SAE