The Lesser Tragedy of Death. Cristina Garcia

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      BLACK GOAT is an independent poetry imprint of Akashic Books created and curated by award-winning Nigerian author Chris Abani. Black Goat is committed to publishing well-crafted poetry, focusing on experimental and thematically challenging work. The series aims to create a proportional representation of female and non-American poets, with an emphasis on Africans. Series titles include:

      Gomer’s Song by Kwame Dawes

      The Ravenous Audience by Kate Durbin

      Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children by Amatoritsero Ede

      Abstraktion und Einfühlung by Percival Everett

      Auto Mechanic’s Daughter by Karen Harryman

      Controlled Decay by Gabriela Jauregui

      eel on reef by Uche Nduka

      Conduit by Khadijah Queen

      to be hung from the ceiling by strings of varying length by Rick Reid

      Published by Akashic Books

      ©2010 Cristina García

      ePUB ISBN-13: 978-1-936-07079-4

      ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-01-5

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939083

      All rights reserved

       Black Goat

      c/o Akashic Books

      PO Box 1456

      New York, NY 10009

      [email protected]

       www.akashicbooks.com

       For Paqui

       Acknowledgments

      Mil gracias to Dean Rader for his generosity and brilliance.

      Thank you to Donna Seaman and to Triquarterly for publishing “Twenty-Nine Palms,” and to Daniel Shapiro for including “Spell,” “Brownstone,” “Twenty-Nine Palms,” “Namesake,” and “What You Dream” in Review 78, Literature and Arts of the Americas. Also, my gratitude to Craig Perez and Jennifer Reimer of Achiote Press for their early support of my poetry.

      And, of course, un gran abrazo to Chris Abani, friend without peer.

       Every Angel is terrible. And yet, alas,

       I sing to you …

      —Rainer Maria Rilke

       TABLE OF CONTENTS

       Title Page

       Copyright Page

       By the Sea

       Easy Out

       Queens

       Deseo #2

       Adonis

       First Time

       PART II: 1973–1994

       Deseo #3

       Brownstone

       Respuesta

       Knight

       Your Room

       Newspapers

       Report

       What You Dream

       Trip

       Flight School

       Brain

       Mugging

       Twenty-Nine Palms

       A Pastoral

       Vigilante

       Namesake

       His Best Friend

       Girlfriend

       What They Found

       In Cuban

       Salvation

       Princeton

       Deseo #4

       Respuesta

       Sunday

       PART III: 1995–2007

       Winter Tapestry

       Your Advice

       Distaste

       Fried Rice

       Twelve Years Ago

       Wedding

       Listen

       Ode

       Poultry

       Angels

       El Clave

       Bipolar

       Prayer

       Deseo #5

       Respuesta

       Reincarnated

       Ascension

       Shrink

       In Your Other Life

       Forgetting

       Spell

      


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