| Title | : | Destruction Bay |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.55 (139 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0931122929 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 71 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1998-12-31 |
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This first collection by a talented Chicana Mestiza poet invokes her upbringing in Fairbanks, Alaska. Much of the work, some of it written as dramatic monologues, reflects her passionate interest in women’s lives; he woman who longs to escape on the late night train; the deserted woman who raises Akitas, “good-natured killers”; the whore in the Fairbanks motel; the young widow walking home remembering her husband’s chest “crushed like an egg” when a jack shifts. Other poems, like the title poem “Reaching Destruction Bay,” are deeply rooted in the harsh and dramatic landscape of Alaska.”A manuscript with diversity: romantic, brutal, political, emotional. And a wonderful, steadily yielding sense of language. Reveals a rich heritage, which she brings to the reader in powerful, generally integrated ways.”—Anya Achtenberg
Editorial : "The poems dwell in the extremes; toughness and innocence, victim and victimizer, seawater and nettles. Chavez's poems are piercing and sharp as a northern winter, and always they are only a word away from devastation." -- Linda Hogan
A manuscript with diversity: romantic, brutal, political, emotional. And a wonderful, steadily yielding sense of language. Reveals a rich heritage, which she brings to the reader in powerful, generally integrated ways. -- Anya Achtenberg
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Great fun to read in the sun.. The author also does a good job in discussing post-decision developments that reflected the impact of the holding, including some in America. She is physically very different from her sisters and preferred the company of her brothers and their friends after her parents' death. I saw it in an eighth grade classroom. I love this book! It has a wide variety of ''things'' to color within those letters. Well written. The cross-picking style using open strings mixed with upper position notes is done here extremely well.
The layout of the book is excellent. This
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