{"product_id":"maps-for-migrants-and-ghosts-9780809337927","title":"Maps for Migrants and Ghosts","description":"\u003cb\u003eLanguage as key and map to places, people, and histories lost\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e For immigrants and migrants, the wounds of colonization, displacement, and exile remain unhealed. Crossing oceans and generations, from her childhood home in Baguio City, the Philippines, to her immigrant home in Virginia, poet Luisa A. Igloria demonstrates how even our most personal and intimate experiences are linked to the larger collective histories that came before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this poetry collection, Igloria brings together personal and family histories, ruminates on the waxing and waning of family fortunes, and reminds us how immigration necessitates and compels transformations. Simultaneously at home and displaced in two different worlds, the speaker lives in the past and the present, and the return to her origins is fraught with disappointment, familiarity, and alienation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Language serves as a key and a map to the places and people that have been lost. This collection folds memories, encounters, portraits, and vignettes, familiar and alien, into both an individual history and a shared collective history--a grandfather's ghost stubbornly refusing to come in out of the rain, an elderly mother casually dropping YOLO into conversation, and the speaker's abandonment of her childhood home for a second time. \u003cbr\u003e The poems in this collection spring out of a deep longing for place, for the past, for the selves we used to be before we traveled to where we are now, before we became who we are now. A stunning addition to the work of immigrant and migrant women poets on their diasporas, \u003ci\u003eMaps for Migrants and Ghosts \u003c\/i\u003ereveals a dream landscape at the edge of this world that is always moving, not moving, changing, and not changing. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-3703069\"\u003eLuisa A. Igloria\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Southern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/09\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780809337927\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0809337924\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE005060\"\u003eAmerican | Asian American \u0026amp; Pacific Islander\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLuisa A. Igloria is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently \u003ci\u003eThe Buddha Wonders If She Is Having a Mid-Life Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e; and the recipient of many awards including the May Swenson Prize and the Resurgence Poetry Prize, the world's first major ecopoetry award. Her poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry East\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Shenandoah\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Crab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Lantern Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Cha\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Southern Illinois University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42685164814573,"sku":"9780809337927","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_dd5633ee-e0ad-4974-9f6a-7135656d8717.jpg?v=1649763883","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/maps-for-migrants-and-ghosts-9780809337927","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}