"Field Guide for Accidents begins with a prayer and carries us through nature among the wings of birdsong and a mother's healing psalms. Each poem betwixt breath and faith. Faith in God and faith in the loss of one's identity. The line breaks and the lemons illuminated. The insistence of a family silence and the temptation to follow the sound of one's internal weeping, all a joyous unearthing"--
"Field Guide for Accidents begins with a prayer and carries us through nature among the wings of birdsong and a mother's healing psalms. Each poem betwixt breath and faith. Faith in God and faith in the loss of one's identity. The line breaks and the lemons illuminated. The insistence of a family silence and the temptation to follow the sound of one's internal weeping, all a joyous unearthing"--
Albert Abonado is the author of Jaw (Sundress Publications). He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in the Boston Review, Colorado Review, Poetry Northwest, The Margins, Hobart, Waxwing, Triquarterly, and others. Albert currently teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and the Rochester Institute for Technology. He is the former Director of Adult Programs at Writers & Books.
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Foreword by Mahogany L. Browne I From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit Mano She Carries My Lola into the Bathroom Ode to Kamayan The God I Know Eats with Its Hands The History of Prayer How to Remove a Spike To Prepare the Bitter Melon Rival For All of My Unborrowed and Unspent Joys II Punchline Remedy Witness You Are Supposed to Cut a Mango into Squares Outer Banks Recollection Instead of the Mastectomy You Must Wait 15 Minutes Before You Try Again An Honest Mistake III Field Guide for Accidents IV The Bears Never Talk About Winter Flood Warning Every Wilderness Is a Province of Teeth A Colony of Ants Attack My Wrist and I Just Let Them Wolf House Landscape with Car Wreck and Father The Trees Are Motherfuckers Summer Solstice with Motownphilly as Soundtrack Sympathy for the Conspiracy Theorist V About the Horses Advice for Using Blood in a Poem Poem as Manananggal Always Looks for the Moon Poem as Aswang with Tasting Notes Poem as Kapre Who Rolls Cigars Among the Pines Poem as Aswang Who Passes Chickens from One Mouth to the Next On the History of the Line A Pile of Poems Is Called a Negation Notes Acknowledgments
Foreword by Mahogany L. Browne I From the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit Mano She Carries My Lola into the Bathroom Ode to Kamayan The God I Know Eats with Its Hands The History of Prayer How to Remove a Spike To Prepare the Bitter Melon Rival For All of My Unborrowed and Unspent Joys II Punchline Remedy Witness You Are Supposed to Cut a Mango into Squares Outer Banks Recollection Instead of the Mastectomy You Must Wait 15 Minutes Before You Try Again An Honest Mistake III Field Guide for Accidents IV The Bears Never Talk About Winter Flood Warning Every Wilderness Is a Province of Teeth A Colony of Ants Attack My Wrist and I Just Let Them Wolf House Landscape with Car Wreck and Father The Trees Are Motherfuckers Summer Solstice with Motownphilly as Soundtrack Sympathy for the Conspiracy Theorist V About the Horses Advice for Using Blood in a Poem Poem as Manananggal Always Looks for the Moon Poem as Aswang with Tasting Notes Poem as Kapre Who Rolls Cigars Among the Pines Poem as Aswang Who Passes Chickens from One Mouth to the Next On the History of the Line A Pile of Poems Is Called a Negation Notes Acknowledgments
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