phoenix
Som, Brandon. Tripas. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2023.
Denis Johnson reads from his third and fourth books of poetry, The Incognito Lounge and Other Poems (1982) and The Veil (1987). He also reads from his short story collection Jesus' Son (1992), published the year prior to this reading. He primarily selects pieces set in Arizona.
Brandon Som reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Tripas (2023), sharing poems focused on his Mexican American and Chinese American grandparents, particularly their experiences living and working in Phoenix, Arizona. Throughout the poems, images of circuitry and electronics link the poems back to his Chicana grandmother's work in a Motorola factory.
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