{"product_id":"father-genocide-paperback","title":"Father \/ Genocide - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMargo Tamez\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A necessary, urgent, and affecting work.\" --\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Tamez's poetry disturbs the mind with its bravery of language, musical indictments of culture, and profound good heart. She is one of our great lyric poets. This book is simply wonderful!\"\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Norman Dubie, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Quotations of Bone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the night before he \"walked on,\" Margo Tamez's father recorded two questions onto a cassette tape: \"Where did all the good men go? Where did they go?\" Two decades later, Tamez reconstructs her father's struggle to \"be a man\" under American domination, tracing the settler erasure, denial, and genocide that he and preceding generations experienced. She reclaims stolen territory in the felt and known history of colonial Texas through Ndé Dene [Lipan Apache] place, memory, and poetics of resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I was raised up in American violence,\" Tamez writes, \"and I have to explore all of its possibilities ...\" Her poetry brings out those possibilities by \"timebending,\" with a poetic form Tamez calls \"Indigenous fusionism-Indigenous futurism,\" a union of pastpresent, bodyknowing, intertext, bent tradition, \u003cem\u003eland\u003c\/em\u003eguage, and familial blood-knowing, \u003cem\u003eFather\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eGenocide\u003c\/em\u003e reveals why impunity on the Texas border is the key to understanding American identity violence. Her lightning poetry strikes the nested seeds and unburies the truth of \"these bitter lands.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargo Tamez\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, historian, activist, and Associate Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her writing has appeared in the \u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCimarron Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHawaii Pacific Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eMissouri Review. \u003c\/em\u003eHer previous collections include \u003cem\u003eNaked Wanting\u003c\/em\u003e (2003) and \u003cem\u003eRaven Eye \u003c\/em\u003e(2007), which won the WILLA Literary Award in poetry. She lives in the unceded territory of the Sqilxw Peoples, Okanagan Nation, BC, Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 152\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.9 x 7.32 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48392669036793,"sku":"9781933527048","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/tm31i9Lbpv9781933527048.webp?v=1778565160","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/father-genocide-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}