Deuda Natal /
María Pastor ; translated by MAría José Giménez & Anna Rosenwong.
- First edition
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Ambroggio Prize Ser. .
- Ambroggio Prize Ser. .
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Cover -- Title page -- Copyright -- Índice -- Poeta nacional -- Lectura en un comedor universitario -- Maíz -- Los bustos de Martí -- Lecciones -- Observaciones -- Joven cubano -- Harina -- Poeta nacional -- Las fiestas nunca son sólo eso -- Hoy es lluvia ácida -- Conversación con mi traductora -- Fuegos artificiales -- El amante -- Pájaro que cae -- Paraíso perecedero -- Paraíso perecedero I -- Paraíso perecedero II -- Paraíso perecedero III -- Paraíso perecedero IV -- Paraíso perecedero V -- Turista por un día -- Beatriz Magadán -- He vuelto a la orilla para nunca ver el mar -- El rompeolas -- Circunstancias -- Bo -- Hay una deuda -- Han llegado los chinos -- Atrón -- Alaska -- Falsa heladería -- Después de la tormenta -- Turismo interno -- Moho -- El arrojo -- El arrojo -- El humo dormido -- Dromedario -- Matojos -- Te doy "like" -- Descubrimientos -- Tetita -- Otra versión del arrojo -- La piedra sobre la que vivo -- No estoy intacta -- Nada cunde -- Líquida -- No dije diluvio ni delirio -- Ambición -- Los que vuelan -- Deletreando a oscuras -- Ella decide huir en otro idioma -- Saldo -- Flora numérica -- Nota de viaje -- Aquella foto en blanco y negro -- Trenza -- El premio -- Saldo -- Béla Tarr en el cine club -- Saltamontes -- Un platito con agua -- Liquidación -- La mirada se cansa en el monitor -- La hija del banquero -- Jeep Cherokee -- Fermentos -- La Marsellesa -- Deuda natal -- Hombre -- Cuando los árboles floten -- El álbum de Violeta -- Lata de reservas -- Para pintar una casa -- Apellidos en el cuerpo -- Homenaje al ombligo -- El día que naciste -- Epígrafe -- Entonces mi hija -- Contents -- National Poet -- Reading in a University Cafeteria -- Maize -- The Busts of Martí -- Lessons -- Observations -- Cuban Boy -- Flour -- National Poet -- Parties Are Never Just That -- Today Is Acid Rain -- Conversation with My Translator. Fireworks -- The Lover -- Falling Bird -- Perishable Paradise -- Perishable Paradise I -- Perishable Paradise II -- Perishable Paradise III -- Perishable Paradise IV -- Perishable Paradise V -- Tourist for a Day -- Beatriz Magadán -- I've Returned to the Shore to Never See the Sea -- The Breakwater -- Circumstances -- Bo -- There Is a Debt -- The Chinese Have Arrived -- Atrón -- Alaska -- False Ice Cream Shop -- After the Storm -- Domestic Tourism -- Rust -- The Edge -- The Edge -- Sleeping Smoke -- Dromedary -- Weeds -- I "Like" You -- Discoveries -- Tetita -- Another Version of the Edge -- The Rock I Live On -- I Am Not Intact -- Nothing Lasts -- Liquid -- I Didn't Say Deluge or Delirium -- Ambition -- The Ones That Fly -- Spelling in the Dark -- She Decides to Flee in Another Language -- Balance Due -- Numeric Flora -- Travel Note -- That Photo in Black and White -- Braid -- The Prize -- Balance Due -- Béla Tarr in the Film Club -- Grasshopper -- A Plate of Water -- Severance -- Eyes Get Tired at the Monitor -- The Banker's Daughter -- Jeep Cherokee -- Fermentation -- La Marseillaise -- Natal Debt -- Man -- When Trees Float -- Violeta's Album -- Tin Can -- To Paint a House -- Last Names on the Body -- Homage to the Navel -- The Day You Were Born -- Epigraph -- Then My Daughter -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author and Translators.
Deuda Natal finds the beauty within vulnerability and the dignity amidst precariousness. As one of the most prominent voices in Puerto Rican poetry, Mara Pastor uses the poems in this new bilingual collection to highlight the way that fundamental forms of caring for life--and for language--can create a space of poetic decolonization. The poems in Deuda Natal propose new ways of understanding as they traverse a thematic landscape of women's labor, the figure of the nomad and immigrant, and the return from economic exile to confront the catastrophic confluence of disaster and disaster capitalism. The poems in Deuda Natal reckon with the stark environmental degradation in Puerto Rico and the larger impacts of global climate change as they navigate our changing world through a feminist lens. Pastor's work asserts a feminist objection to our society's obsession with production and the accumulation of wealth, offering readers an opportunity for collective vulnerability within these pages. For this remarkable work, Pastor has found unique allies in María José Giménez and Anna Rosenwong, the translators of Deuda Natal. Winner of the 2020 Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets, this collection showcases masterfully crafted and translated poems that are politically urgent and emotionally striking.