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- Brother Bullet: Poems
- Book
- 2019
- Published by: University of Arizona Press
- Series: Sun Tracks
summary
Speaking to both a personal and collective loss, in Brother Bullet Casandra López confronts her relationships with violence, grief, guilt, and ultimately, endurance. Revisiting the memory and lasting consequences of her brother’s murder, López traces the course of the bullet—its trajectory, impact, wreckage—in lyrical narrative poems that are haunting and raw with emotion, yet tender and alive in revelations of light.
Drawing on migratory experiences, López transports the reader to the Inland Empire, Baja California, New Mexico, and Arizona to create a frame for memory, filled with imagery, through the cyclical but changing essence of sorrow. This is paralleled with surrounding environments, our sense of belonging—on her family’s porch, or in her grandfather’s orange grove, or in the darkest desert. López’s landscapes are geographical markers and borders, connecting shared experiences and memories.
Brother Bullet tugs and pulls, drawing us into a consciousness—a story—we all bear.
Drawing on migratory experiences, López transports the reader to the Inland Empire, Baja California, New Mexico, and Arizona to create a frame for memory, filled with imagery, through the cyclical but changing essence of sorrow. This is paralleled with surrounding environments, our sense of belonging—on her family’s porch, or in her grandfather’s orange grove, or in the darkest desert. López’s landscapes are geographical markers and borders, connecting shared experiences and memories.
Brother Bullet tugs and pulls, drawing us into a consciousness—a story—we all bear.
Table of Contents
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- Bullet Breaks
- 10th St Porch: Investigation
- pp. 7-8
- Father Made Us
- p. 9
- I Could Have
- p. 10
- Remember This
- p. 11
- The Wreckage
- pp. 12-13
- I Am Sorry for Your Loss
- pp. 14-15
- At the House: Evidence
- pp. 17-18
- One Year Memorial
- pp. 22-23
- Bullet Teaches
- What Bullet Teaches
- pp. 29-30
- Open the Door: Eyewitness
- pp. 31-32
- Dear Brain Bullet
- pp. 33-34
- The First 48
- pp. 35-36
- An Unknown
- pp. 37-38
- What Body Can Bear
- p. 39
- For Those Who Dream of the Dead
- pp. 40-41
- The Darkest of Deserts
- pp. 45-46
- New Language
- A New Language
- pp. 49-50
- Refugio Beach
- p. 51
- Where Cement Splits
- pp. 54-55
- Suddenly It Comes And
- pp. 58-60
- Biological
- p. 61
- In This Desert
- pp. 62-63
- Continent of Desire
- pp. 64-66
- Remains
- What Remains
- p. 69
- Sun Receding into Earth
- pp. 72-73
- Mouthed Memory
- pp. 75-76
- Peeled Fruit
- pp. 79-80
- When I Was a Young Girl
- pp. 81-83
- Sister Song
- p. 84
- 4th of July: San Bernardino 2015
- pp. 86-88
- Oranges Are Not Indigenous
- pp. 91-92
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 93-96
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816539697
Related ISBN(s)
9780816538522
MARC Record
OCLC
1082978059
Pages
104
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-22
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2019