Rick Barot
Autor(a) de The Galleons: Poems
About the Author
Rick Barot was born on February 19, 1969 in the Philippines. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and received his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He teaches at the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is the author of The Darker Fall and Want. In 2016 he won the PEN Open mostrar mais Book Award, UNT Rilke Prize, and the Publishing Triangle Thomas Gunn Award for his poetry collection Chords. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Rick Barot
Associated Works
Who’s Yer Daddy?: Gay Writers Celebrate Their Mentors and Forerunners (2012) — Contribuidor — 15 exemplares
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- male
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- Obras
- 4
- Also by
- 8
- Membros
- 89
- Popularidade
- #207,492
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Críticas
- 3
- ISBN
- 7
Barot takes this history and builds a collection around it. The backbone of the collection are the 10 poems called "The Galleons 1-10" which are telling part of that story, including one of the middle ones being nothing more than a complete list of all the Galleons' names and years. It is like a chant, just a list that seems to go forever. And around it are the pictures that keep repeating in your head - the slaves on the ships, the slaves that made it to the other side and the ones that did not, the captains and the objects. But it is not about that part of history - the Galleons brought people which have future histories and they are part of the collection as well - those histories merged with the history of the world and became our histories.
Barot is Filipino-American and a lot of those poems are about his family and his own experiences - using what he knows to add a context to a little known part of history. You will not learn much about the Galleons from the collection but it will send you reading about them. And even the poems that are not about that route on the surface end up connected - because they are the center of the experiences of a lot of people from this diaspora.
Highly recommended.… (mais)