Employing struck-through lists of dead soldiers, fractured diary entries on a return to Guam or shoplifting Vienna Sausages, public comments from Draft Environmental Impact Statements, and searing poems of brevity and heart, Perez is re-mapping a post-colonial America, one pitch-perfect syllable at a time." -Mark Nowak, author of Coal Mountain Elementary, "The journeys that we are meant to take through texts are just as much through time and history as they are across oceans in the Pacific."-Michael Lujan, Transmotion, "Craig Santos Perez is quite simply writing some of the most significant poetry of the early 21st century. Employing struck-through lists of dead soldiers, fractured diary entries on a return to Guam or shoplifting Vienna Sausages, public comments from Draft Environmental Impact Statements, and searing poems of brevity and heart, Perez is re-mapping a post-colonial America, one pitch-perfect syllable at a time." , "Craig Santos Perez is quite simply writing some of the most significant poetry of the early 21st century. "Craig Santos Perez is quite simply writing some of the most significant poetry of the early 21st century.
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