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
Duración:00:00:13
02_Forward by Sarah May
Duración:00:04:59
03_Dedication
Duración:00:00:25
04_Invocation
Duración:00:00:20
05_In the Name of Sipakti
Duración:00:04:37
06_Survival Story Section Break
Duración:00:00:17
07_Survival Story
Duración:00:01:27
08_Prayer to Abuela
Duración:00:01:33
09_Blackout with Cows, an Interrogation, and a Murder
Duración:00:04:20
10_Nine with a Knapsack
Duración:00:01:29
11_El Hombre Machete
Duración:00:03:55
12_Do you want to meet the men in my family?
Duración:00:01:45
13_Mama's Arms
Duración:00:02:52
14_Prayer to Abuelo
Duración:00:02:59
15_Matthew 25:40
Duración:00:03:04
16_After Losing San Agustin, After Finding Izote
Duración:00:01:47
17_Mark 6:41-42
Duración:00:03:21
18_Witness
Duración:00:02:34
19_a hincarse means to kneel before your maker
Duración:00:01:30
20_Where Mama Teaches Me to Twerk
Duración:00:02:42
21_Prayer to St. John
Duración:00:02:50
22_Tia Tere as Sipakti Talteguyu: A Gang Rape in Six Parts
Duración:00:09:22
23_Partida Section Break
Duración:00:00:18
24_Said Sipakti to Her Son
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25_before i was born, my mother
Duración:00:02:00
26_Where Mama's Legs are the Americas
Duración:00:02:14
27_Where Papi's Angel Speaks to Me About Love
Duración:00:02:23
28_Where Papi's Angel Speaks to Me from an Immigrant Detention Center
Duración:00:01:25
29_Where We See Mama's Back
Duración:00:03:37
30_Nightmare in an Inferno Where I Find Mama's Head
Duración:00:01:59
31_Mama's Heart
Duración:00:02:27
32_Said Sipakti to her Son
Duración:00:02:16
33_Shoulda Been Felipe Amaya Section Break
Duración:00:00:14
34_Poem Where Papi Prays in the Dark
Duración:00:03:01
35_Nobody Really Cared
Duración:00:02:18
36_The Coming of Your Firstborn means Pupusas in Brooklyn
Duración:00:01:26
37_Poem Where I Wonder if I Am Laughing Too Loud
Duración:00:02:04
38_I need 600 by the end of this poem
Duración:00:01:53
39_Eviction
Duración:00:01:32
40_Shoulda Been Felipe Amaya
Duración:00:02:49
41_Canciones de Cuna Section Break
Duración:00:00:18
42_Cancion de Cuna
Duración:00:01:35
43_How I Learned to Read
Duración:00:01:59
44_Sopa de Pata
Duración:00:02:39
45_Mama's Hands
Duración:00:01:44
46_Mama's Lungs
Duración:00:01:20
47_Homecoming
Duración:00:02:01
48_Where We Find Mama's Tongue
Duración:00:01:34
49_Things i will never tell my mother
Duración:00:04:53
50_Notes
Duración:00:04:12
51_Ending Credits
Duración:00:00:16