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The Lesser Tragedy of Deathpoems by Cristina Garcia Poetry | A Trade Paperback Original
Click here for book events featuring Cristina Garcia. Click here to see more titles on the Black Goat imprint. The highly anticipated debut poetry collection from the best-selling author of Dreaming in Cuban.
Black Goat is an independent poetry imprint of Akashic Books created and curated by award-winning Nigerian author Chris Abani (author of Becoming Abigail and Song for Night). Black Goat is committed to publishing well-crafted poetry, and will also focus on experimental or thematically challenging work. The series aims to create a proportional representation of female, African, and other non-American poets. The latest installment in Chris Abani's critically-acclaimed Black Goat poetry series. "The Lesser Tragedy of Death is a brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray. With skill, unflinching honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina Garcia tracks his marvelous, complex, and errant life . . . These poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother she loves. With this first book of poems, Cristina Garcia, one of our best novelists and storytellers, proves herself to be a talented poet as well."--Julia Alvarez, author of Saving the World
"Cristina Garcia has the courage to look tragedy in the eye without flinching . . . In spare, luminous brushstrokes of language, Garcia paints a series of portraits, from the boy who fell off a bicycle to the desperate mugger wrestling with an old woman over her purse. The cumulative effect is haunting, yet ultimately redemptive. There is power in Garcia's insistence that we see her brother as a human being, in all his complexity and mystery. You won't forget these poems, or the story they tell." What happened that led this gentle, generous boy to a world of drugs, homelessness, and crime? What upheavals, personal and political, spun their lives in such radically different directions? Who bears responsibility? The sister tries to piece together their stories from discordant shards, hearsay, speculation, witnessing. Her reports are contested by the brother, corroborated by unreliable others, undermining the nature of inquiry itself. Cristina Garcia is the author of several novels including Dreaming in Cuban and A Handbook to Luck, anthologies, and books for young readers. The Lesser Tragedy of Death is her first collection of poetry. Garcia's work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into a dozen languages. She is a Visiting Professor and Black Mountain Institute Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
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