Description
Description
What do you do with the survival instinct when it has fulfilled its purpose? Poet Gianella Ghiglino unravels this question over dozens of soul-stirring pages, charting her relationship with her Peruvian roots, her immigrant family, and survivor's guilt. Equal parts meditation and eulogy, Resting Place of Survival gives grace to the everyday, the ancestral, and the mythic through native and adapted tongues.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"In Resting Place of Survival, Gianella Ghiglino writes poems that sing with the love and grace of ancestors and the wisdom of lands both ancient and new. A beautiful journey of language and insight."
-Kali Fajardo-Anstine, bestselling author of Woman of Light and Sabrina & Corina
"These poems are conversations that you want to eavesdrop on. Ghiglino lets you listen in and you are let into secrets, given advice and made to feel as if you belonged cause she is talking to you. They speak to you of loss and beauty, of the ways in which we are connected to each other and at the same time fractured. These poems do not hide in the room to speak, quietly whispering their concerns; they stand on the front porch and laugh when they want to, cry when needed and sing songs that at times calm us, at others make us want to dance and sometimes make us want to rage."
-Sami Miranda, author of Protection from Erasure and Departure
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