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Lake Tahoe: home of the Washoe Tribe, a shining blue jewel that crowns the Sierra Nevada, and a beloved American vacation destination made accessible by the transcontinental railroad built largely by Chinese laborers. This gorgeous location forms the site from which Caroline M. Mar’s stunning collection,
Water Guest, attempts to reconcile issues of identity, ownership, and place. The poems wander through Mar’s attempts to locate herself geographically, genealogically, and etymologically. A direct ancestor was a railroad laborer; is that why her love for the land feels older than herself? Or is it the siren call of the deep, clear water?
Raising questions of inheritance, the conundrum of land ownership, and the violence of history, Mar gives voice to the lost writing of Chinese laborers and silent communion to those of us still here—immigrant and Indigenous, settler and resister. This beautiful collection finds acceptance, if not resolution, through the questions themselves.
Sommario
- Failed Translations
- Dream of the Lake
- Mythology
- Stage 1: Cold Shock / Threat No. 1 Loss of Breathing Control
- Stage 1: Cold Shock / Threat No. 2 Heart and Blood Pressure Problems
- Stage 1: Cold Shock / Threat No. 3 Mental Problems
- With a surface area of 191.6 square miles and a depth of 1,645 feet, Lake Tahoe is the largest and the second-deepest alpine lake in the United States
- Naming
- Intelligible
- Burials
- Stage 2: Physical Incapacitation
- Portraits of the Ancestor
- 1870 census; Truckee, CA: Ah John, male, 18; occupation: prostitute
- Stage 3: Hypothermia
- S---- Valley
- Fire Control
- Stage 4: Circum-rescue Collapse
- Catalog of Writings Left by Chinese Railroad Laborers of the C.P.R.R.
- A Correspondence
- Tragedy
- Mercy
- Guest: First Translation
- Swim Team Outer Space
- Song for Great-Grandfather
- Tie
- Guest: Second Translation
- Property
- John Chinaman
- Celestials
- Guest: Third Translation
- Certainty
- Being Away from the Lake
- Distinctions
- The Ghost Ship
- Song for Great-Great-Grandfather
- Lake of the Sky
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
Info autore
Caroline M. Mar is the great-granddaughter of a railroad laborer and the author of
Special Education and the chapbook
Dream of the Lake. A high school health educator in her hometown of San Francisco, she is getting to know her new home of Oakland. A member of Rabble Collective, she has been granted residencies at Storyknife, Ragdale, and Hedgebrook, among others.
