Say That

by Felecia Caton Garcia

Overview

Caton Garcia’s poems layer sound and image to offer a tangible point of access into the complex and often contradictory ideas contained within the work. Love, loss memory, and the hidden lives of a range of speakers and characters become the interwoven themes of this book, each presented in raw and unflinching narrative and metaphor. Say That is divided into two sections. The first presents the lived experience of the speakers, while the second strips the “story” to unveil a dreamlife where memory and history haunt the lives they lead.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826353177
Publisher:	University of New Mexico Press
Publication date:	03/15/2013
Series:	Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	56
File size:	224 KB

About the Author

Felecia Caton Garcia is the author of a chapbook, Pos orale!, and currently teaches writing and cultural studies at Central New Mexico Community College in Albuquerque.

Table of Contents

Entomology 1

I Mirrors

East L.A. in Three Stages of Time 5

Holy Week Triptych: Mother and Child, Mexico, 1978 6

Tezcatlipoca's Mirror 9

Dreams My Father Told Me 10

Drought 11

WHIRLAWAY 12

Firecracker in a Coke Bottle 14

Yesterday Mark 15

Refrain 16

Anaphylaxis 17

Midwest Ranchera 18

Night Sweats 19

Sarah in the Nave 20

Territorial Jockeying 21

Four Gifts 22

II Maps

Animal Nightmare 27

Lost Children 28

Dreams of the Dead (Invitation Declined) 29

Hex 30

Halloween 31

Refraction 32

Old Love as a Function of Atomic Decay 33

The Queen 34

Remains 35

The Professional Mourner 36

The Professional Mourner's Competition 37

Still Birth 38

Weaning 39

Looking for You in Puerto Angel 40

Retraction 41

El Mozote, El Salvador, 1992 42

The Bank of Hell 43

This Is How We Kill 'em in Suicide Country 44

Infidel 45

Say That 46

The Garden Enclosed 47

The Cartographer Returns from Hell 48

Runes 49

Acknowledgments 51