I Ask about What Falls Away by Jason Magabo Perez

I Ask about What Falls Away

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I Ask about What Falls Away

Kaya Press

I Ask about What Falls Away

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A new book-length elegy from San Diego's 2023-24 Poet Laureate

Jason Magabo Perez's second full-length book of poetry is an extended elegy set in the alleyways and Pacific-bound boulevards of San Diego, California during the current global health crisis. Called "an antidote to despair" (Muriel Leung, Imagine Us, The Swarm) and poetry that "complicates notions of solidarity, community and justice, distilling the quotidian into something sacred" (Rachelle Cruz, God's Will For Monsters), I ask about what falls away serves as an intimate grief manifesto against the daily violations of racial capitalism. Perez, the 2023-2024 San Diego Poet Laureate, employs a critical and improvisatory assemblage of lyric and litany, narrative and distillation, fragment and refrain to map city, solidarity and history. At once playful and tenacious, I ask about what falls away pays careful witness to working-class uncles, aunties, cousins and youth in rhythm with the anti-colonial wisdom of writers such as Neferti X. M. Tadiar and Aimé Césaire, remixing sorrow with a deep love and knowledge for everyday people.
Book Details
Publisher:
Kaya Press
ISBN:
9781885030894
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
124
Authors:
Jason Magabo Perez
Published Date:
2024-03-12
Language:
English
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About Jason Magabo Perez

Poet Laureate of San Diego from 2023 to 2024, Jason Magabo Perez is a Filipino American poet, performer, and scholar born in Detroit and raised in Southern California. He holds an MFA in Writing and Consciousness from New College of California and a dual PhD in Ethnic Studies and Communication from the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of the chapbook Phenomenology of Superhero (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2016) and the collections This Is for the Mostless (WordTech Editions, 2017) and I Ask About What Falls Away (Kaya Press, 2024). He received a 2023 Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.

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