A01=William Archila
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Author_William Archila
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Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DCF
Central America
childhood
complex
COP=United States
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El Salvador
elegiac language
emptiness
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exile
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homeland
immigration
Language_English
Latino
lost country
lyrical
musical writing
PA=Available
past
present
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
psychological
softlaunch
spiritual
struggle
united states immigrant poet
urban landscape
US
US immigrant Central American poetry virgil physological fragment immigrations
vigil of loss
war
Product details
- ISBN 9781597093712
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 159g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 16 Apr 2015
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The Gravedigger's Archaeology writes the urban landscape of the US immigrant, a figure constantly reminded of the nameless and the dispossessed who struggle back home in Central America. Moving between past and present, these poems record a vigil of loss left by the emptiness of tedious excavation?both psychological and spiritual. They travel the fragments and vestiges of a war, the return to one’s homeland or place of childhood, unearthing the landscapes of a jazz riff, myth, or work of art. In a lyrical, sometimes elegiac language, the poems map the complex territory of an exile who understands the answers lie in the ground.
