Sightseer in This Killing City

A fourth collection from a prize-winning poet whose "gift is breathtaking" (Naomi Shihab Nye)

Eugene Gloria's Sightseer in This Killing City captures the surreal and disorienting feelings of the present. In the wake of recent presidential elections in the United States and in the Philippines, Gloria's latest collection sharpens his obsession with arrivals and departures, gun violence, displacement, cultural legacy, and the bitter divisions in America. Through the voice of Nacirema, the central persona of the collection, we are introduced to a character who chooses mystery and inhabits landscapes fraught with beauty and brutality. Gloria quotes melodies from seventies soul and jazz, blending the urban lament of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane with the idiom of Stevie Wonder and Fela Kuti. Sightseer in this Killing City is an argument for grace and perseverance in an era of bombast and bullies.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 06/04/2019
ISBN: 9780143133841
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d

Review Citations: Booklist 05/15/2019 pg. 14
Publishers Weekly 06/24/2019 pg. 46
Library Journal 08/23/2019 pg. 1