Wake the Others
Willy Palomo
Half-memoir, half-biography, Wake The Others wrestles with the legacy of the Salvadoran Civil War. Blending lyric and narrative, Palomo traces his mother’s childhood, war experiences, family separation, migration, and its aftermath. Political without sacrificing craft, confessional without navel-gazing, this debut collection of poetry guides readers through the quagmire of family secrets to a place where healing is possible.
"Willy Palomo’s outstanding debut takes a scalpel to the heart of biography as a genre, cuts through to the arteries of inherited nostalgia for a motherland, and opens the capillaries of a mama, abuela, and bisabuela’s traumas. This book is a gut wrenching family narrative of the history of violence in El Salvador and a family’s journey north in hope of stability and the possibility of joy. Palomo’s poems are an important and unique addition to the growing voice of Central American writers in the United States.”
—Natalie Scenters-Zapico, author of The Verging Cities and Lima :: Limón
Duration - 1h 56m.
Author - Willy Palomo.
Narrator - Willy Palomo.
Published Date - Sunday, 14 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2023 Willy Palomo ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
Half-memoir, half-biography, Wake The Others wrestles with the legacy of the Salvadoran Civil War. Blending lyric and narrative, Palomo traces his mother’s childhood, war experiences, family separation, migration, and its aftermath. Political without sacrificing craft, confessional without navel-gazing, this debut collection of poetry guides readers through the quagmire of family secrets to a place where healing is possible. "Willy Palomo’s outstanding debut takes a scalpel to the heart of biography as a genre, cuts through to the arteries of inherited nostalgia for a motherland, and opens the capillaries of a mama, abuela, and bisabuela’s traumas. This book is a gut wrenching family narrative of the history of violence in El Salvador and a family’s journey north in hope of stability and the possibility of joy. Palomo’s poems are an important and unique addition to the growing voice of Central American writers in the United States.” —Natalie Scenters-Zapico, author of The Verging Cities and Lima :: Limón Duration - 1h 56m. Author - Willy Palomo. Narrator - Willy Palomo. Published Date - Sunday, 14 January 2024. Copyright - © 2023 Willy Palomo ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:13
02_Forward by Sarah May
Duration:00:04:59
03_Dedication
Duration:00:00:25
04_Invocation
Duration:00:00:20
05_In the Name of Sipakti
Duration:00:04:37
06_Survival Story Section Break
Duration:00:00:17
07_Survival Story
Duration:00:01:27
08_Prayer to Abuela
Duration:00:01:33
09_Blackout with Cows, an Interrogation, and a Murder
Duration:00:04:20
10_Nine with a Knapsack
Duration:00:01:29
11_El Hombre Machete
Duration:00:03:55
12_Do you want to meet the men in my family?
Duration:00:01:45
13_Mama's Arms
Duration:00:02:52
14_Prayer to Abuelo
Duration:00:02:59
15_Matthew 25:40
Duration:00:03:04
16_After Losing San Agustin, After Finding Izote
Duration:00:01:47
17_Mark 6:41-42
Duration:00:03:21
18_Witness
Duration:00:02:34
19_a hincarse means to kneel before your maker
Duration:00:01:30
20_Where Mama Teaches Me to Twerk
Duration:00:02:42
21_Prayer to St. John
Duration:00:02:50
22_Tia Tere as Sipakti Talteguyu: A Gang Rape in Six Parts
Duration:00:09:22
23_Partida Section Break
Duration:00:00:18
24_Said Sipakti to Her Son
Duration:00:01:19
25_before i was born, my mother
Duration:00:02:00
26_Where Mama's Legs are the Americas
Duration:00:02:14
27_Where Papi's Angel Speaks to Me About Love
Duration:00:02:23
28_Where Papi's Angel Speaks to Me from an Immigrant Detention Center
Duration:00:01:25
29_Where We See Mama's Back
Duration:00:03:37
30_Nightmare in an Inferno Where I Find Mama's Head
Duration:00:01:59
31_Mama's Heart
Duration:00:02:27
32_Said Sipakti to her Son
Duration:00:02:16
33_Shoulda Been Felipe Amaya Section Break
Duration:00:00:14
34_Poem Where Papi Prays in the Dark
Duration:00:03:01
35_Nobody Really Cared
Duration:00:02:18
36_The Coming of Your Firstborn means Pupusas in Brooklyn
Duration:00:01:26
37_Poem Where I Wonder if I Am Laughing Too Loud
Duration:00:02:04
38_I need 600 by the end of this poem
Duration:00:01:53
39_Eviction
Duration:00:01:32
40_Shoulda Been Felipe Amaya
Duration:00:02:49
41_Canciones de Cuna Section Break
Duration:00:00:18
42_Cancion de Cuna
Duration:00:01:35
43_How I Learned to Read
Duration:00:01:59
44_Sopa de Pata
Duration:00:02:39
45_Mama's Hands
Duration:00:01:44
46_Mama's Lungs
Duration:00:01:20
47_Homecoming
Duration:00:02:01
48_Where We Find Mama's Tongue
Duration:00:01:34
49_Things i will never tell my mother
Duration:00:04:53
50_Notes
Duration:00:04:12
51_Ending Credits
Duration:00:00:16