With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a
book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational
childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who
worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese
American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store.
Enacting a como se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that
inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family
memory, Som participates in a practice of mem(oir), placing each
poem's ear toward a confluence of history, labor, and languages,
while also enacting a kind of "telephone" between cultures.
Invested in the circuitry and circuitous routes of migration and
labor, Som's lyricism weaves together the narratives of his
transnational communities, bringing to light what is overshadowed
in the reckless transit of global capitalism and imagining a world
otherwise-one attuned to the echo in the hecho, the oracle in the
orale.
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