Mouth Filled with Night: Poems (Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize)

Synopsis

The Winner Of The Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, Rodney Gomez’s Collection Mouth Filled With Night Employs Familiar Emblems Of Mexican American Identity To Repeatedly Subvert Expectations While Intensifying The Dilemmas Of Affiliation. The Poems Run Beyond More Conventional Ideas Of Agency, Identity, And Experience, Creating A Newly Invigorated Imaginative Space. As A Collection, Mouth Filled With Night Gains Particular Momentum — A Pitched Anxiety That Slowly Grows Throughout The Volume — To Create A Poetic Experience Unique To The Chapbook Form. The Hand -- Rio Bravo -- Milpa Verde -- La Sirena -- At My Crutch's Funeral -- Speaking River -- Serape -- What Happened To Fire -- Head Of A Jewel Scarab -- Feast Day -- Cornelio Smith -- Farmworker As Existential Quantifier -- Grackles -- A Farmer, A Chain -- Escutcheon For Pochos -- Drag Racer -- Riot -- Spine -- A Theory Of Fences -- The Method -- Prospective Titles For A Border Thesis -- Mesquite Virgin -- Grackle -- A Mereology Of Coyolxauhqui -- Baedeker For A Life Cut With Danger. Rodney Gomez.