{"product_id":"tula-poems-9781571314888","title":"Tula: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTula: \u003c\/em\u003e a ruined Toltec capital; a Russian city known for its accordions; Tagalog for \"poem.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrismatic, startling, rich with meaning yet sparely composed, Chris Santiago's debut collection of poems--selected by A. Van Jordan as the winner of the 2016 Lindquist \u0026amp; Vennum Prize for Poetry--begins with one word and transforms it, in a dazzling sleight of hand, into a multivalent symbol for the immigrant experience. \u003cem\u003eTula\u003c\/em\u003e: Santiago reveals to readers a distant land devastated by war. \u003cem\u003eTula\u003c\/em\u003e: its music beckons in rhythms, time signatures, and lullabies.\u003cem\u003e Tula\u003c\/em\u003e: can the poem, he seems to ask, build an imaginative bridge back to a family lost to geography, history, and a forgotten language?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the experiences of the second-generation immigrant who does not fully acquire the language of his parents, \u003cem\u003eTula \u003c\/em\u003epaints the portrait of a mythic homeland that is part ghostly underworld, part unknowable paradise. Language splinters. Impossible islands form an archipelago across its landscape. A mother sings lullabies and a father works the graveyard shift in Saint Paul--while in the Philippines, two dissident uncles and a grandfather send messages and telegrams from the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeeply ambitious, a collection that examines the shortcomings and possibilities of both language and poetry themselves, \u003cem\u003eTula \u003c\/em\u003eintroduces a major new literary talent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571314888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.60w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016 pg. 98\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Chris Santiago","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43251427049653,"sku":"9781571314888","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_56201ba8-9ce1-4a50-8ea1-a32b66d3b560.jpg?v=1699372645","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tula-poems-9781571314888","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}