Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist The poems of Might Kindred wonder aloud: can we belong to one another, and “can a people belong to a dreaming machine?” Conjuring mountains and bodies of water, queer and immigrant poetics, beloveds both human and animal, Mónica Gomery explores the intimately personal and the possibility of a collective voice. Here anthems are sung and fall apart midsong. The speaker exchanges letters with her ancestors, is visited by a shadow sister, and interrogates what it means to make a home as a first-generation American. Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the poems in Might Kindred are rooted in the body and its cousins, seeking the possibility of kinship, “in case we might kindness, might ardor together.” Belonging and unbelonging are claimed as part of the same complicated whole, and Gomery's intersections reach for something divine at the center.

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Gomery, Mónica

Prairie schooner book prize in poetry, Lincoln, 2022

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2022

United States, United States of America

Lincoln, Nebraska, 2022

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Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Self-Portrait with Airplane Turbulence
Theology
Emblanquecer
Immigrant Elegy for Ávila
Family Is an Illumination of Shoulders
Ghazal for a First Lover
Might Kindred
Prologue
When My Sister Visits
Here
God Queers the Mountain
It Isn't Easy to Speak
Falling Out
A Poem with Two Memories of Venezuela
Letter to Myself from My Great Grandmother
Origin Stories
Abecedario
When My Sister Visits
After Pulse
The Synagogue Membership Assembles to Discuss the Fascist Presidency
Imaginitive Exercise in the Study of Epigenetics
Dendrochronology of Hair
Ode to the Poop Bag
The Oldest Form of Prayer
Now We Live Together
Because It Is Elul
When My Sister Visits
We Thanked Her By Digging a Hole
Fragments of an Anthem
Banishing Loneliness
Here
A Poem About a Book About Venezuela
Sleeping in Hurricane Season
Emblanquecer
Ghazal for a Year
Halleluyah
We Walked Dahlias to Her Front Porch
I Thought I Was Done Writing About My Dead
Ghazal for God & Wellbutrin
The Poet Considers If Her Body Belongs to Her
When My Sister Visits
Here
Love Letter
Acknowledgments
Notes

2022-12-20