Poet of Ada Limon, whose last collection, “”LaunchI went on sale this week – I bought the will and returned to the house of my childhood, where she lived from the time when she was a baby, until she was fifteen years old. According to her, she said experience that “living in my memories.” A letter about this period of their life, it turned out to be that they turn to books that study the ways that people relate to their own past, and how these acts of independent load can withstand accounts proposed by other people and in history.
Vulnerable
Sigrid Nunez
This novel by Sigrid Nunes, who is one of my favorite writers, takes a place in the middle of the pandemic. We are talking about a woman who goes into a friend’s apartment to look after her parrot, and then discovers that the young man, a college student, will also be in the apartment. The story of how they get along, and do not get along, and about the unexpected relationships that develop between them at a time when everyone is afraid of each other.
This book really emphasizes how many of our past lives live through us these days. The novel is told from the point of view of a woman who, as well as with the main characters of many books of Nunes, is also a writer. Throughout the book, she continues to use the phrase “I remember”, which she needed with the artist and poet Joe BrainardLike an engine for her thoughts and as a way to take time. The book seems to be very stuck in its moment, that is, a pandemic, but it also moves forward, from memory.
Dear memory
Victoria Chang
I was friends for a long time and Fan of Victoria Chang. She is a poet, but this book is a collection of letters, many of which include a common memory. She pulls these other characters as a way to interview her own memories. The idea is a little like asking another creature, do you remember this?
Many of the letters for people – her mother, her sister, her teacher – but some have a more etheric installation. For example, there is a letter called the “expensive body.” The collection is both an emotional journey and an intellectual study of what makes us who we are, memories of family and our genealogy. There are letters that are dealing with what it means to be a Chinese, and the journey “American”.
From the point of view of the format, this is a really unique book filled with photographs and collages. This seems in many respects as a combination of biography, poetry and memorable things.
Praise for kitchen ghosts
Crystal Wilkinson
This wonderful book is at the same time the story of Black Appalachi, memoirs and a culinary book. This interprets the stories of many black women with meditation regarding their relations with food and their relations with the ground through food. Like the “dear memory”, this book really explores what it means to have ancestors, and swings up in specific associations that its characters have with their family stories.
The book is an excellent transportation of black survival. One of the ones that Wilkinson is returning is an idea that people have to move black in search of places where they will feel desired. She thinks about this in the context of the history of the slave trade in terms of the history of her own family.
I think that this book is worth spending time, even if you are not a cook, but if you are, I made some of the recipes, and everything was delightful. There are several simple old -fashioned popcorn with sorghum patho, for example, really sweet.
Book of delight
Ross Gay
Like Ross's book “Book (more) admirationIt may sound like poetry when it is read aloud, but this is prose.
I wanted to turn on this book because when I think about memory or talk with other people about their memories, so many of what arises, this is an injury. Our brain is intended to hold on to these things. This book illustrates what happens when you make this deep movement to find joy to find curiosity. As he unfolds, you admit that all this exercise is devoted to setting up your consciousness in order to recall something beautiful.
Our souls of migrants
Elector Tobar
This is an incredible book that is partly read as an autobiography, but is also a historical view of the race, immigration and mythology of what it means to be a “Latin American”. I love it for many reasons. One of them is that the Hector will formulate something very difficult to formulate, which is a category of Latino American. What are Latin American? It's really nothing. We have ancestors from Mexico, or we have ancestors from Cuba, or we have ancestors from Guatemala. To be a Latin American is to be a false team. This is a useful term – when we come about rights when we think about political power, but in many respects it also eliminates our personality, hiding our individual relations in certain places.
I think that this book is fascinating, because we are talking not only about collective memory, but also about how, if you carefully look at the history of the United States, it becomes clear that we actually live with a false memory of the country's history with immigration and immigrants.
