Tripas Poems

Brandon Som

Book - 2023

"With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som participates in a practice of mem(oir), placing each poem's ear toward a confluence of history, labor, and languages, while also enacting a kind of "telephone" between cultures. Invested in the circuitry and circuitous routes of migration and labor, Som's l...yricism weaves together the narratives of his transnational communities, bringing to light what is overshadowed in the reckless transit of global capitalism and imagining a world otherwise-one attuned to the echo in the hecho, the oracle in the órale."--Provided by publisher.

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  • Teléfono roto
  • I. Code Switches
  • Chino
  • Raspadas
  • My Tata, My Li Po
  • Overdub
  • Close Reading
  • Fuchi
  • Inventory
  • II. Twin Plant
  • Sirenas Del Aire, 1958
  • Shainadas
  • Cypher
  • Qingming
  • Tattoo
  • Diagram
  • Half
  • III. Antenna
  • Resistors
  • My Father's Perm
  • Gramophone
  • Super Mercado Lee Hou
  • Transmitter
  • IV. Novena.

From "TATTOO" I carry that archive--what's stored without inventory: a leaf, an aleph; a casita in husk; a feminine eye inside hoja; maize, maíz, masa--a maze on fingertips. Hear the word again-- at its center a gristmill of cicada, a mesquite both vessel & wishbone. Excerpted from Tripas: Poems by Brandon Som All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.