Island of Lost Luggage

by McAdams, Janet

• ISBN13: 9780816520565
• ISBN10: 0816520569
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Arizona Pr

Summary

" . . . at the Island of Lost Luggage, they line up: the disappeared, the lost children, the Earharts of modern life. It's your bad luck to die in the cold wars of certain nations. But in the line at Unclaimed Baggage, no one mourns for the sorry world that sent them here . . ." The abused. The oppressed. The terrified victims of institutionalized insanity. Making daring connections between the personal and the political, Janet McAdams draws new lines in the conflict between the new and old worlds as she redefines the struggle to remain human. This award-winning collection of poetry forges surprising links among seemingly unrelated forms of violence and resistance in today's world: war in Central America, abuses against Nature, the battleground of the bedroom. McAdams evokes the absurdity of everyday existence as she sends out a new call for social responsibility. The Island of Lost Luggageis the poetry winner of the 1999 First Book Awards competition of the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas.

Table of Contents

Boulevard of Heroes	p. 1
The Basilica of Our Lady of Good Health	p. 3
El Salvador del Mundo	p. 4
Boulevard of Heroes	p. 5
The Hands of the Taino	p. 7
The Door of the Devil	p. 9
Leaving the Old Gods	p. 10
The Children's Crusade	p. 12
The Island of Lost Luggage	p. 13
News from the Imaginary Front	p. 14
The Thousand-Year War	p. 17
The Grand Hotel	p. 19
The Bound Children	p. 21
Advice to Travelers	p. 22
Paradise	p. 23
Advice to Travelers II	p. 25
The Travelers	p. 26
Seven	p. 27
The Thousand-Year War	p. 29
A Map of the Twentieth Century	p. 31
The Monster of Childhood	p. 33
The Children's Corner	p. 34
The Lean Year	p. 36
Birthday	p. 38
The Venus Thread	p. 39
A Child's Geography	p. 42
A Map of the Twentieth Century	p. 43
After the War	p. 47
A Woman Speaks to Her Past	p. 49
The Book of Days and Nights	p. 50
Hunger	p. 53
After the War	p. 54
Heart	p. 56
A Disturbance in Memory	p. 57
Cemetery Autumn	p. 62
Flood	p. 65
The Signs of Leaving	p. 66
Notes	p. 69
Acknowledgments	p. 73
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