{"product_id":"field-guide-for-accidents-isbn-9780807020517","title":"Field Guide for Accidents","description":"\u003cb\u003eSELECTED BY MAHOGANY L. BROWNE FOR THE NATIONAL POETRY SERIES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn irreverent poetry collection that wrestles with questions of family, mortality, cultural history, and identity from the Filipinx-American experience\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\"you showed him your teeth, you dared him to look into your mouth to see the metal bands straightening your jaw into an American smile.\"—from \u003c\/i\u003eField Guide for Accidents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn in the United States to Filipino immigrants, poet Albert Abonado is no stranger to the language of periphery. Neither wholly “American” nor Filipino, \u003ci\u003eField Guide for Accidents\u003c\/i\u003e’s speakers are defined by what they are not: not white enough to be born in America, not Asian enough to feel at home in the Philippines. Abonado’s poetry illuminates the strange and surreal in domestic routine, suturing wounds of love, grief, and the contradiction of being Filipinx-American, two identities bound with a hyphen that resists negation. What results is a growing exposure to a world mired in paradox.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eField Guide for Accidents \u003c\/i\u003eexperiment with the constraints of the poetic line, shaping forms that exhume what tend to haunt us in the silence. In \u003ci\u003eField Guide for Accidents\u003c\/i\u003e, memory becomes augmented with the imaginary; suspicion collides with superstition, while spirituality crosses paths with scientific fact. A mother returns to her son as a boat. A stew is prepared with blood yet masked as chocolate. The living eat with the dead in memories built like houses. Mythic, bloodthirsty creatures in Pinoy folklore prey on an exhausted poet. Research conducted in hindsight provides new avenues to explore regret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor many third-culture kids of the Asian-American diaspora, there is no such thing as a success story for “fitting in.” What matters more is finding where you belong. Spooning images from hand to mouth, the poems in \u003ci\u003eField Guide for Accidents \u003c\/i\u003estruggle with what it means to consume and be consumed by American culture.\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e by Mahogany L. Browne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the Trees Full of Birdsong Comes Unripe Fruit\u003cbr\u003eMano\u003cbr\u003eShe Carries My Lola into the Bathroom\u003cbr\u003eOde to Kamayan\u003cbr\u003eThe God I Know Eats with Its Hands\u003cbr\u003eThe History of Prayer\u003cbr\u003eHow to Remove a Spike\u003cbr\u003eTo Prepare the Bitter Melon\u003cbr\u003eRival\u003cbr\u003eFor All of My Unborrowed and Unspent Joys\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePunchline\u003cbr\u003eRemedy\u003cbr\u003eWitness\u003cbr\u003eYou Are Supposed to Cut a Mango into Squares\u003cbr\u003eOuter Banks\u003cbr\u003eRecollection\u003cbr\u003eInstead of the Mastectomy\u003cbr\u003eYou Must Wait 15 Minutes Before You Try Again\u003cbr\u003eAn Honest Mistake\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eField Guide for Accidents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bears Never Talk About Winter\u003cbr\u003eFlood Warning\u003cbr\u003eEvery Wilderness Is a Province of Teeth\u003cbr\u003eA Colony of Ants Attack My Wrist and I Just Let Them\u003cbr\u003eWolf House\u003cbr\u003eLandscape with Car Wreck and Father\u003cbr\u003eThe Trees Are Motherfuckers\u003cbr\u003eSummer Solstice with Motownphilly as Soundtrack\u003cbr\u003eSympathy for the Conspiracy Theorist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Horses\u003cbr\u003eAdvice for Using Blood in a Poem\u003cbr\u003ePoem as Manananggal Always Looks for the Moon\u003cbr\u003ePoem as Aswang with Tasting Notes\u003cbr\u003ePoem as Kapre Who Rolls Cigars Among the Pines\u003cbr\u003ePoem as Aswang Who Passes Chickens from One Mouth to the Next\u003cbr\u003eOn the History of the Line\u003cbr\u003eA Pile of Poems Is Called a Negation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e“Albert Abonado’s poems open us up to feast and to wonder. This book asks: How do we grieve with the belly? How can we find nourishment from a cloud? Why don’t we laugh, really laugh out loud, more often—and isn’t that a form of prayer? And when can our exhausted parents rest, when can the immigrant worker fully rest, mouth open in dream, snores at full delicious blast? I feel so held by this book. Cradled, in fact. While, at the same time, challenged—to climb a tree, to dive into sea, to stop hiding my own hunger, my teeth. ‘Every good mouth knows when to be unhinged,’ one poem declares, and I want to live inside that declaration. Let this poetry unhinge your life.”\u003cbr\u003e—Chen Chen, author of \u003ci\u003eYour Emergency Contact Has Experienced an Emergency\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Full of ghosts and prayers,\u003ci\u003e Field Guide for Accidents\u003c\/i\u003e is an exceptional book. Albert Abonado is a poet with the ability to maintain a clear and precise voice while navigating mysteries that are as vast as god and family and grief and America. The result is a collection of poems that are as insightful as they are emotionally expansive.”\u003cbr\u003e—Matthew Olzmann, author of\u003ci\u003e Constellation Route\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlbert Abonado \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eJaw\u003c\/i\u003e (Sundress Publications). He holds an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. His writing has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBoston Review, Colorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Margins, Hobart, Waxwing, Triquarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, and others. Albert currently teaches creative writing at SUNY Geneseo and the Rochester Institute for Technology. 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