Cipota under the Moon: Poems
In Cipota under the Moon, Claudia Castro Luna scores a series of poems as an ode to the Salvadoran immigrant experience in the United States. The poems are wrought with memories of the 1980s civil war and rich with observations from recent returns to her native country. Castro Luna draws a parallel between the ruthlessness of the war and the violence endured by communities of color in US cities; she shows how children are often the silent, unseen victims of state-sanctioned and urban violence. In lush prose poems, musical tankas, and free verse, Castro Luna affirms that the desire for light and life outweighs the darkness of poverty, violence, and war. Cipota under the Moon is a testament to the men, women, and children who bet on life at all costs and now make their home in another language, in another place, which they, by their presence, change every day.
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Cipota under the Moon: Poems
In Cipota under the Moon, Claudia Castro Luna scores a series of poems as an ode to the Salvadoran immigrant experience in the United States. The poems are wrought with memories of the 1980s civil war and rich with observations from recent returns to her native country. Castro Luna draws a parallel between the ruthlessness of the war and the violence endured by communities of color in US cities; she shows how children are often the silent, unseen victims of state-sanctioned and urban violence. In lush prose poems, musical tankas, and free verse, Castro Luna affirms that the desire for light and life outweighs the darkness of poverty, violence, and war. Cipota under the Moon is a testament to the men, women, and children who bet on life at all costs and now make their home in another language, in another place, which they, by their presence, change every day.
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Cipota under the Moon: Poems

Cipota under the Moon: Poems

by Claudia Castro Luna
Cipota under the Moon: Poems

Cipota under the Moon: Poems

by Claudia Castro Luna

Overview

In Cipota under the Moon, Claudia Castro Luna scores a series of poems as an ode to the Salvadoran immigrant experience in the United States. The poems are wrought with memories of the 1980s civil war and rich with observations from recent returns to her native country. Castro Luna draws a parallel between the ruthlessness of the war and the violence endured by communities of color in US cities; she shows how children are often the silent, unseen victims of state-sanctioned and urban violence. In lush prose poems, musical tankas, and free verse, Castro Luna affirms that the desire for light and life outweighs the darkness of poverty, violence, and war. Cipota under the Moon is a testament to the men, women, and children who bet on life at all costs and now make their home in another language, in another place, which they, by their presence, change every day.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781882688616
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 05/20/2022
Pages: 80
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)
Language: Spanish
Age Range: 3 Months to 18 Years

About the Author

CLAUDIA CASTRO LUNA has been an Academy of American Poets Poet Laureate fellow, the Washington State Poet Laureate, and Seattle’s inaugural Civic Poet. She is the author of One River, A Thousand Voices; the Pushcart nominated Killing Marías, shortlisted for the Washington State 2018 Book Award in poetry; and the chapbook This City. Her most recent nonfiction can be found in the anthology There’s a Revolution Outside, My Love: Letters from a Crisis. Born in El Salvador, she came to the United States in 1981. Living in English and Spanish, Claudia writes and teaches in Seattle on unceded Duwamish lands where she gardens and keeps chickens with her husband and their three children.

Table of Contents

1 Notes from a Home Country

Río Surio 13

Agua de Beber 14

Vía Láctea 15

El Salvador 1980 16

Syndrome 17

Shade Grown 18

In the Vault of Your Hands 19

Vamos a la Escuela 20

Garrison 21

Tyranny of the Milky Way 22

Hija de los Días 23

This Is Not a Poem 24

Dios Madre 25

For Alfredo Espino 28

Caravans 29

Angelitos 30

Dead and Alive 31

Presagio 32

2 Of the New Place

Flareup 35

El Salvador, January 1981 36

Aqui Estoy 37

Chubasco 38

Arrested Delight 40

Golden 41

Wake 42

Cloven Moon 43

Farmers Marker 44

Less and Less 45

Epicurean Matters 46

Urban Renewal 47

A Note from the Eastern Front 48

Guanaco Tales 49

What Work Is 50

Trigger Me a Memory 51

Held 52

Noticias 53

Civitas 54

Altars on the Streets 55

Loteria de los Pobres y Valientes 56

Monsenor Romero 60

Alchemist 61

Luminescence 63

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Pupusa 64

3 Sometimes You Are Permitted a Return

Pura Vida 71

Ask the Bees 72

Day Stamp 74

Bruja 75

Milpa 76

Sometimes You are Permitted a Return 77

Ensalada 78

Kolty's Song 79

Silent Valentine 80

A Natural Act 82

Perros de Luna 81

Meditation on the Color Purple 82

Minuta 85

The Way of Peace 86

Sol de Noche 87

Cipota Bajo La Luna 88

Agnacatero 89

Caliche 90

May God Grant You a Good Day 91

Lento 92

Childhood Syntax 93

Rafters 94

Tinta Florida 95

4 Aquí Nada Más

On Translation 99

Visions of Gladness 100

Witness 101

Surafel 102

Ofrenda 103

Assiduously 104

No More Short Yardsticks to Measure My Days 105

Clearest of Nights 106

Suenos 107

My Fathers Garden 108

Curcubita Maxima 110

Gravity 111

On Citizenship 112

Mítico // Mythic 114

Leave the Gate Open on Your Way Out 115

Acknowledgments 117

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