My Favorite Warlord

A third collection from an award-winning poet, author of Sightseer in this Killing City, whose "gift is breathtaking" (Naomi Shihab Nye)

The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet's sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria's rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan's sixteenth-century warlord Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet's father's dementia; "Here on Earth" embraces post-racial America and the speaker's own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage, civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria's own fears of frailty and erasure.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 05/29/2012
ISBN: 9780143121404
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.57w x 0.29d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 06/25/2012