The Gravedigger's Archaeology writes the urban landscape of the US immigrant, a figure constantly reminded of the nameless and the dispossessed who struggle back home in Central America. Moving between past and present, these poems record a vigil of loss left by the emptiness of tedious excavation?both psychological and spiritual. They travel the fragments and vestiges of a war, the return to one's homeland or place of childhood, unearthing the landscapes of a jazz riff, myth, or work of art. In a lyrical, sometimes elegiac language, the poems map the complex territory of an exile who understands the answers lie in the ground.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Published: 03/05/2015
ISBN: 9781597093712
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40d