Field Guide for Accidents
By Albert Abonado
Foreword by Mahogany L. Browne
By Albert Abonado
Foreword by Mahogany L. Browne
By Albert Abonado
Foreword by Mahogany L. Browne
By Albert Abonado
Foreword by Mahogany L. Browne
Part of National Poetry Series
Part of National Poetry Series
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$18.00
Oct 22, 2024 | ISBN 9780807020517
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Oct 22, 2024 | ISBN 9780807020524
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Praise
“Albert Abonado’s poems open us up to feast and to wonder. This book asks: How do we grieve with the belly? How can we find nourishment from a cloud? Why don’t we laugh, really laugh out loud, more often—and isn’t that a form of prayer? And when can our exhausted parents rest, when can the immigrant worker fully rest, mouth open in dream, snores at full delicious blast? I feel so held by this book. Cradled, in fact. While, at the same time, challenged—to climb a tree, to dive into sea, to stop hiding my own hunger, my teeth. ‘Every good mouth knows when to be unhinged,’ one poem declares, and I want to live inside that declaration. Let this poetry unhinge your life.”
—Chen Chen, author of Your Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency
“Full of ghosts and prayers, Field Guide for Accidents is an exceptional book. Albert Abonado is a poet with the ability to maintain a clear and precise voice while navigating mysteries that are as vast as god and family and grief and America. The result is a collection of poems that are as insightful as they are emotionally expansive.”
—Matthew Olzmann, author of Constellation Route
Table Of Contents
Foreword by Mahogany L. Browne
I
From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit
Mano
She Carries My Lola into the Bathroom
Ode to Kamayan
The God I Know Eats with Its Hands
The History of Prayer
How to Remove a Spike
To Prepare the Bitter Melon
Rival
For All of My Unborrowed and Unspent Joys
II
Punchline
Remedy
Witness
You Are Supposed to Cut a Mango into Squares
Outer Banks
Recollection
Instead of the Mastectomy
You Must Wait 15 Minutes Before You Try Again
An Honest Mistake
III
Field Guide for Accidents
IV
The Bears Never Talk About Winter
Flood Warning
Every Wilderness Is a Province of Teeth
A Colony of Ants Attack My Wrist and I Just Let Them
Wolf House
Landscape with Car Wreck and Father
The Trees Are Motherfuckers
Summer Solstice with Motownphilly as Soundtrack
Sympathy for the Conspiracy Theorist
V
About the Horses
Advice for Using Blood in a Poem
Poem as Manananggal Always Looks for the Moon
Poem as Aswang with Tasting Notes
Poem as Kapre Who Rolls Cigars Among the Pines
Poem as Aswang Who Passes Chickens from One Mouth to the Next
On the History of the Line
A Pile of Poems Is Called a Negation
Notes
Acknowledgments
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