{"title":"Eugene Gloria","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"my-favorite-warlord-book-eugene-gloria-9780143121404","title":"My Favorite Warlord","description":"A third collection from an award-winning poet, author of Sightseer in this Killing City, whose \"gift is breathtaking\" (Naomi Shihab Nye)   The themes of identity, relationships, and the poet's sense of origin are at the heart of Eugene Gloria's rich and captivating new collection. The title poem weaves together Japan's sixteenth-century warlord Hideyoshi with a meditation about the poet's father's dementia; \"Here on Earth\" embraces post-racial America and the speaker's own sense of displacement in the Midwest. In elegy and psalm, as well as ancient forms from Asia such as the haibun and pantoum, these elegant and passionate poems enact rage, civility, love, travel, and art as well as explore Gloria's own fears of frailty and erasure.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561251873041,"sku":"GOR013355124","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345644622097,"sku":"CIN0143121405G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143121405.jpg?v=1750811942"},{"product_id":"sightseer-in-this-killing-city-book-eugene-gloria-9780143133841","title":"Sightseer In This Killing City","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fourth collection from a prize-winning poet whose \"gift is breathtaking\" (Naomi Shihab Nye)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Eugene Gloria's \u003ci\u003eSightseer in This Killing City\u003c\/i\u003e captures the surreal and disorienting feelings of the present. In the wake of recent presidential elections in the United States and in the Philippines, Gloria's latest collection sharpens his obsession with arrivals and departures, gun violence, displacement, cultural legacy, and the bitter divisions in America. Through the voice of Nacirema, the central persona of the collection, we are introduced to a character who chooses mystery and inhabits landscapes fraught with beauty and brutality. Gloria quotes melodies from seventies soul and jazz, blending the urban lament of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane with the idiom of Stevie Wonder and Fela Kuti. \u003ci\u003eSightseer in this Killing City\u003c\/i\u003e is an argument for grace and perseverance in an era of bombast and bullies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49864649736465,"sku":"CIN0143133845VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345073410321,"sku":"CIN0143133845G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51548546531601,"sku":"GOR014324575","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0143133845.jpg?v=1751004740"},{"product_id":"drivers-at-the-short-time-motel-book-eugene-gloria-9780140589252","title":"Drivers at the Short-Time Motel","description":"Ephemeral lives, and souls lost in the tattered fabric of war, displacement, and ruined love find hope, redemption, and a common voice in \u003cb\u003eEugene Gloria\u003c\/b\u003e's artful concoction of American and Filipino vernaculars. While some of these thirty poems deal with the landscape and folkways of contemporary Filipinos, others locate themselves on the streets and byways of present-day America. Like many poets of dual heritage, Gloria's work is concerned with self-definition, with the attempt to reconcile a feeling of exile and homelessness. Frequently taking the form of character studies and first-person narratives, Gloria's poems poignantly illuminate the common man's search for connection to the self and to the world.\"\u003cb\u003eEugene Gloria's Drivers at the Short-Time Motel\u003c\/b\u003e is propelled by an imagistic sincerity and paced lyricism. Each poem seems to embody the plain-spoken as well as the embellishments that we associate with classical and modern Asian poetry. Though many of the poems address the lingering hurt of cultural and economic imperialism, worlds coexist in the same skin through magical imagery. Gauged by a keen eye, history is scrutinized, but through a playful exactness. These wonderful poems are trustworthy.\" --\u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyaaka\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345497624849,"sku":"CIN0140589252G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52693921497361,"sku":"CIN0140589252VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0140589252.jpg?v=1750844049"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-eugene-gloria.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}