TY - BOOK AU - Arroyo,Fred TI - Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging T2 - Camino Del Sol Ser SN - 9780816541430 AV - PS3601 .R725 S69 2020 PY - 2020/// CY - Arizona PB - University of Arizona Press KW - Electronic books N1 - ALA COVID Relief Fund; PART I. CONNECTICUT -- 85 Reed Avenue -- Dracula -- Intervals: If I Were a Bell -- Roytype -- World on a String -- Peppers -- Patina -- Newfoundland -- How My Father Taught Me to Write -- Like a Thief in the Night -- PART II. MICHIGAN -- Trash Truck -- Puerto Rican House -- Almost Blue -- Always True -- Blue in Green -- Farmer's Creek -- Sown in Earth -- Blue Memory -- PART III. ISLAND -- Up Jumped Spring -- Ox in the Dusk -- Ají Dulce -- Patio Dreams -- PART IV. OUT OF THIS WORLD -- Grand Marais -- Next Country -- Album -- Working Days -- Nights in the Gardens of Spain -- Calle de Santiago -- Sofrito -- Freight -- Pulsar Watches -- Blood Work -- Other Side of Memory -- Paraíso -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author N2 - Sown in Earth is a collection of personal memories that speak to the larger experiences of hardworking migratory men. Often forgotten or silenced, these men are honored and remembered in Sown in Earth through the lens of Arroyo's memories of his father. Arroyo recollects his father's anger and alcohol abuse as a reflection of his place in society, in which his dreams and disappointments are patterned by work and poverty, loss and displacement, memory and belonging. In Sown in Earth, Arroyo often roots his thoughts and feelings in place, expressing a deep connection to the small homes he inhabited in his childhood, his warm and hazy memories of his grandmother's kitchen in Puerto Rico, the rivers and creeks he fished, and the small cafés in Madrid that inspired writing and reflection in his adult years. Swirling in romantic moments and a refined love for literature, Arroyo creates a sense of belonging and appreciation for his life despite setbacks and complex anxieties along the way. By crafting a written journey through childhood traumas, poverty, and the impact of alcoholism on families, Fred Arroyo clearly outlines how his lived experiences led him to become a writer. Sown in Earth is a shocking yet warm collage of memories that serves as more than a memoir or an autobiography. Rather, Arroyo recounts his youth through lyrical prose to humanize and immortalize the hushed lives of men like his father, honoring their struggle and claiming their impact on the writers and artists they raised UR - https://login.ezproxy.pucpr.edu/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6027958 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/pucpr-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6027958 ER -