At the Park on the Edge of the Country

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Poems

Austin Araujo

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English

Ohio State University Press
24 February 2025

Poetry; Places & peoples: pictorial works

Series: The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize

In At the Park on the Edge of the Country,

Austin Araujo maps the intricacies of memory, immigration, and belonging through the experiences of one Mexican American family-his own-in the rural American South, crystallizing memory and self-knowledge as collaborative, multivocal affairs. Human and nonhuman voices and the competing landscapes of childhood and adulthood propel these poems, offering an unyielding portrait of a family's endless encounters with the shortcomings of citizenship. Speakers sleep like tostadas, mistake hikers crossing a small river in Arkansas for a migrant father, and hold onto silence through difficult conversations in the fields and in the city. Revelatory and striking, these poems reinvent origin myths to unmask the contradictory and expansive astonishments of Mexican American identity in the twenty-first century.

By: Austin Araujo
Imprint: Ohio State University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 134mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 100g
ISBN: 9780814259368
ISBN 10: 0814259367
Series: The Journal Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize
Pages: 72
Publication Date: 24 February 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Austin Araujo is a writer from northwest Arkansas. The recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University, his poems have appeared in Poetry, TriQuarterly, and Gulf Coast. At the Park on the Edge of the Country is his first book.

Reviews for At the Park on the Edge of the Country: Poems

""Simply cinematic--utterly memorable and moving. In these fierce and fiery poems of goldenrod and tostadas, Araujo covers satisfying and crackling ground. An imaginative debut."" --Aimee Nezhukumatathil