Craig Santos Perez

Using a replica of the native Chamorros' outrigger boats as his figurative vessel, these poems explore the personal, historical, cultural, and natural elements of the poet's native Guam. Combining and contrasting the fragmentary myths of the author's island ancestors, intimate childhood stories of growing up on Guam, and the history of his family's immigration to the United States?with primary histories and texts of the colonial domination and abuse brought on by Spain, Japan, and the United States?these poems give voice to the anguish of the oppressed as well as their hopes for the future. Referring to both the island nation of Guam and the uncharted expanses of one's own soul, the ?unincorporated territory” title reflects the author's attempts to express concepts that go beyond the current reaches of any language.

From Unincorporated Territory [saina]

From Unincorporated Territory [åmot]

From unincorporated territory (lukao)

For the first time, Navigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). In this book, poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez navigates the complex relationship between CHamoru poetry, cultural identity, decolonial politics, diasporic migrations, and native aesthetics.

Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization

Navigating CHamoru Poetry

Ching-In Chen

Sasha Pimentel

Khadijah Queen

Addie Tsai

Ocean  Vuong

Kenji Liu

Jose Angel Araguz

Abigail Licad

Tony Robles

Wendy Gaudin

Ernesto L. Abeytia

Tim Seibles

Melissa Coss Aquino

Remica L. Bingham-Risher

This anthology project is dialogue, map, history - a project in response to the many questions poets of color face on a daily basis. It makes no claims of definitive stances -- simply the desire both to hear from each other and to share what we've learned, to pass on to others.

An Anthology of Essays on Transformative Poetics: Poets' Ways of Making

Of Color

Constellations Gathered Along the Ecliptic

"Native Pacific Islander writer Craig Santos Perez has crafted a timely collection of eco-poetry comprised of free verse, prose, haiku, sonnets, satire, and a form he calls "recycling." Habitat Threshold begins with the birth and growth of the author's daughter and captures her childlike awe at the wondrous planet. As the book progresses, however, Perez confronts the impacts of environmental injustice, global capitalism, toxic waste, animal extinctions, water struggles, human violence, mass migration, and climate change. Throughout, Perez mourns lost habitats and species and faces his fears about the world his daughter will inherit. Yet this work does not end at the threshold of elegy; instead, the poet envisions a sustainable future in which our ethics are shaped by the indigenous belief that the earth is sacred and all beings are interconnected--a future in which we cultivate love and "carry each other towards the horizon of care.""--

Habitat Threshold

Linda Russo

Sarah de Leeuw

Eric Magrane

This breakthrough book examines dynamic intersections of poetics and geography. Gathering the essays of an international cohort whose work converges at the crossroads of poetics and the material world, Geopoetics in Practice offers insights into poetry, place, ecology, and writing the world through a critical-creative geographic lens. This collection approaches geopoetics as a practice by bringing together contemporary geographers, poets, and artists who contribute their research, methodologies, and creative writing. The 24 chapters, divided into the sections “Documenting,” “Reading,” and “Intervening,” poetically engage discourses about space, power, difference, and landscape, as well as about human, non-human, and more-than-human relationships with Earth. Key explorations of this edited volume include how poets engage with geographical phenomena through poetry and how geographers use creativity to explore space, place, and environment. This book makes a major contribution to the geohumanities and creative geographies by presenting geopoetics as a practice that compels its agents to take action. It will appeal to academics and students in the fields of creative writing, literature, geography, and the environmental and spatial humanities, as well as to readers from outside of the academy interested in where poetry and place overlap.

Geopoetics in Practice

Allison Adelle Hedge Coke

Brandy Nālani McDougall

This anthology furthers this braiding with the work of four emerging Pacific islander women poets from Guam, Hawaiʻi, and Fiji. Despite their distant origins, all these writers explore culture, history, politics, genealogy, feminism, and the environment. They each have their own unique style, ranging from the lyric to the avant-garde.

Effigies III

Craig Santos Perez

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