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In an Angry Season (Camino del Sol) Paperback – July 1, 2001

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A white woman navigates her fear and uncertainty to learn the ways of the people she called savages, until she begins to dream “in Dakota, syllables sliding / on my tongue like tender pieces of meat.” An African man, on display as a cannibal at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893, sees into the future: “humiliations heaped up / as on overfilled plates . . . / . . . a country that casually / consumes its own.” A woman holds the gray-blue barrel of a gun in her mouth, “the taste familiar / as her own blood.”

With an unexcelled command of narrative verse, Lisa Chávez tells the stories of American lives across more than a century. Whether retelling nineteenth-century captivity narratives or depicting contemporary American women confronting addiction and despair, Chávez investigates issues of identity and self-definition in the face of an often harsh and unremitting history.

Her story-poems explore the ways in which people have been made captive—whether to racism or national policy, to bad marriages or alcoholism, to poverty or emotion—from the Inuit woman birthing a son among strangers to the wife now deranged by desire for another man: “He’s the smoky slow-burn of chipotle on the tongue. My golden idol. My gospel revival. He’s hashish sweet and languorous—my body’s one desire.”

In the end, Chávez shows us a New World of promise in which an alchemist’s assistant summons stories from stones by calling their names with “clicks of her tongue, / syllables of silver, turquoise, and jade,” and a Native woman discovers her true power in an Alaskan bar. Passionate and political, In an Angry Season is a work of startling depth and breadth—an American history in poetry—that asks us what it means to be civilized.

Print length

103 pages
Language

English
Publisher

University of Arizona Press
Publication date

July 1, 2001
Dimensions

6 x 0.33 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

0816521522
ISBN-13

978-0816521524
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The aged and exploited "Geronimo at the World's Fair," a "Young Wife Dreaming" in a Florida cannery, "Allakariallak, who played Nanook in... Nanook of the North" and a series of "white" women from captivity narratives some resentful, others grateful speak and are spoken for in Chavez's rawly effective second book, whose verse monologues, narratives and portraits largely portray Native Americans' "century/ of dishonor, suffering and pain." Ch vez (Destruction Bay) has done careful historical research, and it lets her give stark details from many scenes of oppression. A set of poems about World's Fairs takes in a man from Dahomey, "bearing regal as a king's," whom the white Americans of 1893 term a cannibal. Later poems, set in the present (and much like short stories), look at the economic and sexual subjugation of working-class women. "He was the one I couldn't resist," one narrator begins, before disclosing that her "bad boy collapsed/ into this ruined man"; a later prose poem decries "desire that shackles me still to a past I must never admit." Some readers may find Ch vez's speakers and her portraits lacking in formal invention and nuance or in variety; even when her speakers tell different stories, they do so in the same, direct, narrative forms. Yet the poems' indignation, moral force and historical interest compel careful, engaged reading.

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Second Place co-winner, Best Poetry, Latino Literary Hall of Fame, 2002

"Rawly effective . . . Chávez has done careful historical research, and it lets her give stark details from many scenes of oppression. . .The poems' indignation, moral force and historical interest compel careful, engaged reading." —Publishers Weekly

"A powerful, haunting, eloquent collection . . . This is first-rate narrative poetry from a poet who does her homework and understands the power of words-and history." —Tulsa World

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A white woman navigates her fear and uncertainty to learn the ways of the people she called savages, until she begins to dream "in Dakota, syllables sliding / on my tongue like tender pieces of meat." An African man, on display as a cannibal at the Worldas Columbian Exposition in 1893, sees into the future: "humiliations heaped up / as on overfilled plates . . . / . . . a country that casually / consumes its own." A woman holds the gray-blue barrel of a gun in her mouth, "the taste familiar / as her own blood."

With an unexcelled command of narrative verse, Lisa ChAvez tells the stories of American lives across more than a century. Whether retelling nineteenth-century captivity narratives or depicting contemporary American women confronting addiction and despair, ChAvez investigates issues of identity and self-definition in the face of an often harsh and unremitting history.

Her story-poems explore the ways in which people have been made captive--whether to racism or national policy, to bad marriages or alcoholism, to poverty or emotion--from the Inuit woman birthing a son among strangers to the wife now deranged by desire for another man: "Heas the smoky slow-burn of chipotle on the tongue. My golden idol. My gospel revival. Heas hashish sweet and languorous--my bodyas one desire."

In the end, ChAvez shows us a New World of promise in which an alchemistas assistant summons stories from stones by calling their names with "clicks of her tongue, / syllables of silver, turquoise, and jade," and a Native woman discovers her true power in an Alaskan bar. Passionate and political, In an Angry Season is a work of startling depth and breadth--an American history in poetry--that asksus what it means to be civilized.

About the Author

Lisa D. Chávez is the author of a previous book of poetry, Destruction Bay. Her work has been anthologized in American Poetry: The Next Generation, The Floating Borderlands: 25 Years of U.S. Hispanic Literature, and ¡Floricanto Sí!: A Collection of Latina Poetry. She teaches creative writing and literature at Albion College in Michigan.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Arizona Press; First Edition (July 1, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 103 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0816521522
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0816521524
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.33 x 9 inches

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Rusty

Stunning Collection of Poems!

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This is an unforgettable work by a unique poet. It's a book I plan to read again and again. I recommend it for anyone interested in a strong and passionate poetic voice.

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K.W.

At times painful to read

Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2015

This is a collection of poems that are more than poems. They are poetic short narratives of human experience, in all its beauty and ugliness. At times painful to read, each piece opens wounds and, by shedding light on the inner workings of the soul and its motivations (both selfish and otherwise), allows both acknowledgment and healing.

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Charles M. Nobles

First rate narrative poetry...powerful

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2002

This is a powerful, haunting, eloquent collection of poems that takes events in American history, such as narratives of 19th century white women's captivity by native American's and events surrounding the 1893 World's Fair, and interprets them through contemporary lenses. The result is a unique blend of the present and past which, combined, tells a sometimes troubling story.
Chavez, a teacher of creative writing and literature at Albion College in Michigan, focuses on the personal struggles of men and women, both past and present, and reveals a social history that is almost timeless in it's harsh, complex, oppressive condemnation. A few lines from the poet "A Century Plant" will give the reader a sense of the struggles experienced by many in our society, past and present:"There is a fire on earth that burns much hotter and sweeter than hell. I've felt it. Eternity is now, a lingering death I face every day. Extinction a relief."
This collection is the story of men and women made captive for more than a century. Their captors have been racism, alcoholism, poverty, emotions, failed marriages and a multitude of other events that can strike any individual, any time, without warning and many times seemingly without reason. Their stories, whether from the past or present, will be eerily familiar to many readers. This is first rate narrative poetry from a poet that does her homework and understands the power of words...and history.

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