Immigrant Model
Published on 10. January 2015
109 pages
978-0-8229-8043-8 (ISBN)
Description
The poems in Immigrant Model explore issues of individual and communal identity in the face of conflict, conflicting "truths" or histories, and uprootedness. They explore the notion of homeland as it relates to one's roots, adopted space, psychological terrain, gendered body. If the book reads as a collage of voices or shards rather than as a book with an identifiable arc, it's because that's the only way the poet has managed to answer, so far, the question, "What is it like to be of this world and this world and this world, while also of the elsewhere skirting these worlds?"
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Mihaela Moscaliuc
Immigrant Model
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01/2015
University of Pittsburgh Press
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Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model and Father Dirt and the translator of Liliana Ursu's Clay and Star and Carmelia Leonte's The Hiss of the Viper. Her awards include two Glenna Luschei Awards, residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, and Le Chateau de Lavigny, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. She is associate professor of English at Monmouth University.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Memoir
- I
- Self-Portrait with Monk
- You Ask Why I Buy Pineapples and Let Them Go to Waste
- Chernobyl
- The Summer I Waited for the Revolution and Fell for Peacocks
- The Red Eviction
- Rehearsal
- Grigorescu's ?iganca
- II
- Sheela na gig
- Plaza de Las Flores
- III
- Alien Resident
- My Son, at Six
- The Immigrant Wife's Song
- Beets
- Turning the Bones
- Ana to Manole
- Romanian Touch
- Fig Wasps: Trafficking
- IV
- Radioactive Wolves: A Retelling
- V
- Ghost Mothers: Un-naming
- Doina Speaks: How I Escaped
- The Undertaker's Report
- VI
- Clawed Soleares with Strong Sun and Suitcases
- The Gorge of Ronda
- Elegy for Rick(ster)
- La Bella Principessa
- VII
- Memoir
- Still Life with Placenta and Cherry Tree
- Refugee Song
- Untitled
- Orphan Song
- VIII
- Still Life with Apples, Pajamas, and Miners
- Innocence
- Immigrant Model
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
