Pity the Drowned Horses
University of Notre Dame Press · Print & ebook · April 5, 2005
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- Who it’s for
- These poems trace how the El Paso–Ciudad Juarez border shapes home, family, and belonging.
- Themes
- Borderland place and belonging, Family and home, Cultural difference
- Genres
- Hispanic American Poetry, Family Poems, Place Poetry
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Pity the Drowned Horses is the winner of the first Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. This collection is about place and many of the poems in it are set in the desert southwest on the U.S./Mexico border in El Paso, Texas. Sheryl Luna?s poems are also about family and home within the broader context of the border as both a bridge and a barrier.
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They deal with the bilingual and bicultural city and how a place is longed for and viewed very differently as the observer changes and experiences other cultures. The first two sections of poems focus on home and family. They show that, despite poverty and geographical isolation, the border towns of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez are places of beauty and promise. The third section explores cultures: how anxiety over aesthetic judgments, values, and difference are negotiated. The final section is one of praise and recognition that despite differences we are all longing for faith and a place to call home.
El Paso Borderlands
These poems trace how the El Paso–Ciudad Juarez border shapes home, family, and belonging.
Come here for
- El Paso and Ciudad Juarez as places of beauty and promise
- Poems about family, home, and cultural difference
Expect
- Four sections move from home and family to cultures, then praise and recognition
- A bilingual, bicultural city viewed through changing experience
Where it sits
| Hispanic American Poetry | 91% |
|---|---|
| Place Poetry | 63% |
| Family Poems | 37% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hispanic American Poetry
- Women Poets
- Race & Discrimination
- Authors
- Sheryl Luna
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Published
- April 5, 2005
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Borderland place and belonging · Family and home · Cultural difference
- Reading lane
- Hispanic American Poetry