Pigafetta Is My Wife

by Joe Hall

Book Overview

Pigafetta Is My Wife enters the crisis that is the love between the colonizer and the colonized. These poems fragment the journals of Antonio Pigafetta, a 16th Century traveler who recorded Magellan's hellish circumnavigation of the globe, while tracking a present-day speaker and his beloved as they are distanced and reunited across the map. Along the way we visit historical moments including a botched circumcision as performance art, the Rape...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0984475206
• ISBN13: 9780984475209
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Black Ocean
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 7.5"