{"id":14227,"date":"2020-02-06T14:23:34","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=14227"},"modified":"2024-12-03T22:00:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T03:00:59","slug":"guidebooks-for-the-dead","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/guidebooks-for-the-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Guidebooks for the Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 72 pages \u2022 16.95
\nISBN-13: 978-1-945588-44-0<\/p>\n

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Guidebooks for the Dead<\/em><\/h1>\n

Cynthia Cruz<\/h2>\n

Finalist for the 2020 Big Other Book Award for Poetry.<\/a><\/h5>\n
Featured in The Rumpus.<\/a><\/h5>\n

In Guidebooks for the Dead<\/em>, Cynthia Cruz returns to a familiar literary landscape in which a cast of extraordinary women struggle to create amidst violence, addiction, and poverty. For Marguerite Duras, evoked here in a collage of poems, the process of renaming herself is a \u201cQuiet death,\u201d a renewal she envisions as vital to her evolution. In \u201cDuras (The Flock),\u201d she is \u201chigh priestess\u201d to an imagined assemblage of women writers for whom the word is sustenance and weapon, \u201ctiny pills or bullets, each one packed with memory, packed with a multitude of meaning.\u201d Joining them is the book\u2019s speaker, an \u201cI\u201d who steps forward to declare her rightful place among \u201cthese ladies with smeared lipstick and torn hosiery . . . this parade of wrong voices.\u201d Guidebooks for the Dead<\/em> is both homage to these women and a manifesto for how to survive in a world that seeks to silence those who resist.<\/p>\n

Guidebooks for the Dead<\/strong><\/p>\n

And the enchantment
\nOf children’s hospitals.<\/p>\n

Somewhere there is a god,
\nI swear.<\/p>\n

Someone must be in charge.<\/p>\n

What is the word, again,
\nIn Spanish<\/p>\n

For useless?<\/p>\n

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