The Gods We Worship Live Next Door

by Realuyo, Bino A.

• ISBN13: 9780874808612
• ISBN10: 0874808618
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-30
• Publisher: Univ of Utah Pr

Summary

The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry was inaugurated in 2003 to honor the late poet, a nationally recognized writer and a former professor at the University of Utah, and is sponsored by the University of Utah Press and the University of Utah Department of English. The Gods We Worship Live Next Door is the 2005 prizewinning volume selected by this year's judge, Grace Schulman, distinguished professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Author Biography

Bino A. Realuyo is the recipient of the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America

Table of Contents

I.
Filipineza	3	(1)
Singapore Sunday	4	(1)
Amsterdam Canal	5	(2)
A Night in Dubai	7	(4)
II.
Azúcar	11	(3)
Sultan Kudarat	14	(1)
Procession	15	(1)
Discovery of Skin	16	(5)
III.
1899: The Forgotten Leaf	21	(1)
Consummatum Est	22	(2)
GI Baby	24	(3)
IV.
Pantoum: The Comfort Woman	27	(2)
1942: The War Haiku	29	(2)
Japayuki	31	(2)
From a Filipino Death March Survivor	33	(4)
V.
Witness	37	(2)
Glue Children	39	(2)
Queen	41	(1)
Flower Vendor	42	(1)
Brownout	43	(2)
The Leaning Tenement of Taytay	45	(1)
Because Yesterday I Jumped Out of a Plane	46	(1)
The Pepper-Eater	47	(1)
Lunar Eclipse	48	(1)
Find Me	49	(3)
Cycles	52	(5)
VI.
The Gods We Worship Live Next Door: A Poem in Eleven Parts	57	(20)
Notes	77	(6)
Acknowledgments	83