Naked Wanting Contributor(s): Tamez, Margo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0816522480 ISBN-13: 9780816522484 Publisher: University of Arizona Press OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2003 Annotation: Tamez--poet, farmer, mother, observer--blends precise details and powerful feelings in a lyrical collection that speaks to the intense desire for life that unites all species, and the environmental dangers that endanger that hope. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - Hispanic American - Poetry | Native American - Poetry | Women Authors |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2002013481 |
Series: Camino del Sol: A Latina and Latino Literary (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.56" W x 9.16" (0.34 lbs) 91 pages |
Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - Hispanic |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Come, step outside your human skin for just a little while. Margo Tamez's voice is that of the cicada and the cricket, the raven and the crane. In this volume of poetry, she shows us that the earth is an erotic current linking all beings, a vibrant network of birth, death, and rebirth. A sacred intertwining from which we as humans have become disconnected. Tamez shares the perspective of other creatures in images that remind us of Nature's beauty and fragility. An invocation of birds: "Sudden hum / wings touching / wings in swift turn / hush / a fast red out of the flux." An appreciation for the delicacy of insects, for spiderwebs "like a hundred needle-thin tubes of blown glass." Here too are reflections on childbirth and children--and on miscarriage, when damage inflicted on the environment by herbicides comes back to haunt all of us in our skin and bones, our very wombs. Warning of "the chemical cocktail seeping into the air ducts," she brings the voice of someone who has experienced firsthand what happens when our land and water are compromised. For Tamez, earth, food, and family are the essentials of life, and we ignore them at our own peril. "If a person / does not admit the peril . . . that becomes a dangerous / form of existence." Written with the wisdom of one who knows and loves the land, her lyrical meditations speak to the naked wanting in us all. |