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Guidebooks for the Dead

Guidebooks for the Dead

Cruz, Cynthia

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1945588446
ISBN13: 9781945588440
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Mar 2 2020
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Guidebooks for the Dead, Cynthia Cruz returns to a familiar literary landscape in which a cast of extraordinary women struggle to create amidst violence, addiction and poverty. For Marguerite Duras, evoked here in a collage of poems, the process of renaming herself is a Quiet death, a renewal she envisions as vital to her evolution. In Duras (The Flock), she is high priestess to an imagined assemblage of women writers for whom the word is sustenance and weapon, tiny pills or bullets, each one packed with memory, packed with a multitude of meaning. Joining them is the book's speaker, an I who steps forward to declare her rightful place among these ladies with smeared lipstick and torn hosiery. . . this parade of wrong voices. Guidebooks for the Dead is both homage to these women and a manifesto for how to survive in a world that seeks to silence those who resist.

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