Overview
These poems are engaged in the work of recovery, making visible what is often intentionally erased: the movement of domestic workers on a weekday morning in Brooklyn; a veteran of the war in Afghanistan, fondly sharing photos of his dog; the departure and destination points of dozens of galleons between 1564 and 1815, these ships evoking both the vast movements of history and the individual journeys of those borne along by their tides. āHer story is a part of something larger, it is a part / of history,ā Barot writes of his mother. āNo, her story is an illumination // of history, a matchstick lit in the black seam of time.ā
With nods toward Barotās poetic predecessorsāfrom Frank OāHara to John DonneāThe Galleons represents an exciting extension and expansion of this virtuosic poetās work, marrying ārecklessā ambition and crafted ācomposure,ā in which we repeatedly find the speaker standing and breathing before the world, āincredible and true.ā
This book title, The Galleons (Poems), ISBN: 9781571315236, by Rick Barot, published by Milkweed Editions (February 11, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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