Bøker av Tommy Archuleta

"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 curanderismo, whereby plants and roots are prepared for treating all manner of ills a mind and body might face"--

Part guide, part vagabond, part healer, part orchardist, part trickster, Archuleta's "researcher" shows what it might mean to lean into each loss as it comes, to search for an opening, gain entry, and from there commence inhabitation. From birth-really, the first trauma we survive-onward, the likes of grief and loss and sorrow none of us can escape, this work vies to say-so why not welcome them, make them sacred, feed them apple slices?