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Milkweed Editions
Rick Barot
The Galleons
N/A
2020
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Publisher > Milkweed Editions
Author > Rick Barot
Title > The Galleons
Issue > N/A
Year > 2020
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ISBN > 9781571317278
Pages > 80
Genre > Fiction Poetry
Language > English
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Type > RETAIL
Media > BOOK
Format > .epub
Section > eBook
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Published > 2020-02
Release > 2026-10-22
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Poetry Finalist for the Pacific
Northwest Book Award A New York Public Library Best Book of 2020
For almost twenty years Rick Barot has been writing some of the most
stunningly crafted lyric poems in America paying careful Rilkean attention
to the layered world that surrounds us In The Galleons he widens his scope
contextualizing the immigrant journey of his FilipinoAmerican family in the
larger history and aftermath of colonialism
These poems are engaged in the work of recovery making visible what is
often intentionally erased the movement of domestic workers on a weekday
morning in Brooklyn a veteran of the war in Afghanistan fondly sharing
photos of his dog the departure and destination points of dozens of
galleons between 1564 and 1815 these ships evoking both the vast movements
of history and the individual journeys of those borne along by their tides
Her story is a part of something larger it is a part of
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https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-galleons-poems-rick-barot/7710bed54b426d9c
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