Craig Santos Perez. Omnidawn (UPNE, dist.), $17.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-890650-91-9
By turns cultural and ecological artifact, personal narrative, body count, and colonial (and resistance) document, Perez’s third collection advances a disturbing, fractured narrative using an impressively wide swath of poetic forms and techniques:...
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Craig Santos Perez. Omnidawn, $17.95 trade paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-63243-041-0
This fourth installment in Perez’s “from Unincorporated Territory” series marks an important shift in aesthetic strategy and lyric impulse. The three preceding books—[hacha], [saina], and [guma’]—interrogated America’s colonial legacy and continuing
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Craig Santos Perez. Omnidawn, $19.95 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-1-63243-128-8
The thrilling latest by Santos Perez (from unincorporated territory [guma’]) gathers previously uncollected poems in a powerhouse package of decolonial Indigenous insight. A Chamoru poet native to Guam, he confronts the ongoing legacies of European...
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