Susto

By: Archuleta, Tommy

Book Overview

Surreal yet earthbound, orphaned yet mothered more than most, comforting yet disturbing--Tommy Archuleta's Susto surveys many settings: the body, the soul, the terrain the soul encounters upon leaving the body. But the setting is also the high desert landscape that is the poet's northern New Mexico home, a land whose beauty today is as silencing and brutal as was the colonization of the region and her Anasazi descendants by Archuleta's Spanish antipasados . In Susto, loss is everywhere to be found, though this work is not merely a concerted meditation on lament. Rather, it is part unearthed family album; part unlocked diary; part ode to motherhood and her various forms; part manual on preparing for a happy death; and part primer on the ancient art of c uranderismo , whereby plants and roots are prepared for treating all manner of ills a mind and body might face.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1885635850
• ISBN13: 9781885635853
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: University Press of Colorado
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.4" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 16 years and up