The Gravedigger's Archaeology

By William Archila

Book Overview

The Gravedigger's Archaeology writes the urban landscape of the US immigrant, a figure constantly reminded of the nameless and the dispossessed who struggle back home in Central America. Moving between past and present, these poems record a vigil of loss left by the emptiness of tedious excavation?both psychological and spiritual. They travel the fragments and vestiges of a war, the return to one's homeland or place of childhood, unearthing the landscapes of a jazz riff, myth, or work of art. In a lyrical, sometimes elegiac language, the poems map the complex territory of an exile who understands the answers lie in the ground.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597093718
• ISBN13: 9781597093712
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Red Hen Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.9"