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    origin story: poems
    origin story: poems
    origin story: poems
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    origin story: poems

    By Gary Jackson

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    origin story outlines a family history of distant sisters, grieving mothers and daughters, and alcoholic fathers. These poems take us from Kansas to Korea and back again in an attempt to reconnect with estranged family and familial ghosts divided by years of diaspora. An interrogation of cultural and personal myths, origin story wrestles with the questions: Who will remember us? How do we deal with the failures of memory? Whose stories are told?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of New Mexico Press
    Release dateAug 15, 2021
    ISBN9780826363022
    origin story: poems
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    Gary Jackson

    Gary Jackson is an associate professor of creative writing at the College of Charleston. He is also the author of Missing You, Metropolis, which was the winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize.

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