Tripas: Poems

WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY

Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry

With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award—winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem—making that inventively...