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I Was a Bell - by M Soledad Caballero (Paperback)

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  • *Winner of the 2021 International Association of Authoethnography and Narrative Inquiry Award for Outstanding Book**GOLD MEDALIST in the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award - One Author - English*In this collection, Caballero imagines how memory frames and reshapes the present, how memory illuminates and limits the stories of ourselves, and how, despite the passage of time, primal moments in the past are the ghosts and echoes of our present.
  • Benjamin Franklin Award (Poetry) 2022 3rd Winner
  • Author(s): M Soledad Caballero
  • 96 Pages
  • Poetry, American

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In this collection, Caballero imagines how memory frames and reshapes the present, how memory illuminates and limits the stories of ourselves, and how, despite the passage of time, primal moments in the past are the ghosts and echoes of our present.



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*Winner of the 2021 International Association of Authoethnography and Narrative Inquiry Award for Outstanding Book*

*GOLD MEDALIST in the 2022 International Latino Book Awards for the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award - One Author - English*


In this collection, Caballero imagines how memory frames and reshapes the present, how memory illuminates and limits the stories of ourselves, and how, despite the passage of time, primal moments in the past are the ghosts and echoes of our present. These poems interweave an early childhood lived in another country and in another language with experiences of immigration and family histories in the United States. They create connections between a child's naïve perspective of dictatorship and an adult perspective informed by bodily illness and political knowledge. Ultimately, Caballero traces a lineage of memory, exploring how present moments unearth the past that ripples through them. This collection does not reconcile the past and the present. Instead, these poems remind us that how we ask questions about ourselves, our histories, and our bodies is what creates our identities, our traumas, and our future hopes and possibilities.



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"Caballero bears unflinching witness to the emotional trauma inherited from war-ravaged Chile to the exiled plains of Oklahoma. As though to witness is to love. These poems negotiate the transitions of language, memory, country, her battle with cancer, counterbalancing the violence from which she fled with a transformative devotion to details."--Richard Blanco, fifth Presidential Inaugural Poet


"I Was a Bell is a triumph, a gutting cry of love and longing for all that migration sows and uproots in the survivors of exile. In retracing her family's story of leaving Chile under Pinochet to 1980s Oklahoma, M. Soledad Caballero gives soaring voice to the ways history, memory, and the collective weight of our disappeared lives silenced, but never unheard, in our bodies and hearts. It's hard to express how much these poems made unnamed parts of me feel seen."--Natalia Sylvester, author of Everyone Knows You Go Home and Chasing the Sun


"Caballero uses the English language and the language of a cancer diagnosis and breathes life into them." --Pittburgh City Paper


"Caballero explores memory, war in Chile, and immigration to the U.S. in a deeply personal and touching way." --Latino Stories


"Caballero's writing is conversational yet lyrical, mixing English and Spanish, its short sentences holding vast amounts of beauty and pain." --TuftsNow


Dimensions (Overall): 8.82 Inches (H) x 5.83 Inches (W) x .39 Inches (D)
Weight: .3 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 96
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: American
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Format: Paperback
Author: M Soledad Caballero
Language: English
Street Date: September 7, 2021
TCIN: 83043763
UPC: 9781597094900
Item Number (DPCI): 247-31-3329
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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