Wild in the Plaza of Memory

Blending the personal with the political, these poems explore the deleterious effects of adversity and trauma on a global scale, focusing on such subjects as immigration laws, environmental degradation, multinational corporate greed, and the effects of war on women and children. The poet makes unexpected connections between disparate things, drawing from wild nature for imagery while also passionately engaging the reader to become aware of injustice and suffering at home and abroad. The poems are crafted using lyrical language that is at once precise, figurative, and celebratory, creating a collection that is humanitarian and emotionally resonate.

Pamela Uschuk is a professor of creative writing at Fort Lewis College, the editor in chief of the literary magazine Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts, and the author of four volumes of poetry, including the award-winning Finding Peaches in the Desert and the Pulitzer Prize–nominated Scattered Risks. She lives in Durango, Colorado.

What Came True
Ode to Federico Garcia Lorca	p. 3
2011, The Year of the Metal Rabbit	p. 4
On Pigeon Mountain	p. 6
Wind	p. 9
Say What	p. 11
Wild Poppies	p. 13
Regarding Volcanoes and Scalpels	p. 15
Learning Subtraction	p. 17
All the Way to Angel Fire Peak	p. 19
At the Ouray Vapor Caves	p. 21
Whole Notes	p. 24
Green Rain	p. 25
What Came True	p. 27
Nervousosity	p. 28
The Anarchist Chooses the Chinese Watercolor Brush	p. 30
Driving for Home	p. 31
The River Of Lost Souls Overflows	p. 32
A Short History of Falling
A Short History of Falling	p. 35
In Dharamsala Among Tibetan Exiles	p. 38
After the Chinese Government Outlaws the Belief in Reincarnation	p. 42
Focus of the Mind's Labyrinth	p. 43
Contemplating the Globe of Stars	p. 48
One Theory of Poetry	p. 51
The Racheting	p. 52
In Synch	p. 53
Who Today Needs Poetry	p. 54
Cloud Gathering	p. 56
Domestic Affairs and Foreign Policy	p. 58
My Sister Dreams Herself A Jaguar	p. 59
Elephant Ride, New York	p. 61
A Palimpsest of Motion	p. 63
Notes On Loss	p. 65
Riding The Stars	p. 67
Wild in the Plaza of Memory
Mother's Day Celebration	p. 71
Desert Detour	p. 72
I Have An Illegal Alien In My Trunk	p. 74
Desert Sunday With Clouds	p. 76
Healing Tongues	p. 78
Stalking the Divine Under a Full Desert Moon	p. 80
My Brother Steps Off the Jade Dragon Boat Carrying the Dead	p. 83
Compassionate Heart	p. 84
Sonoran Desert Bat Rise	p. 86
The Same Old	p. 89
What If	p. 92
What Cannot Be Determined	p. 93
What Buzzes	p. 95
Wild In the Plaza of Memory	p. 97
Acknowledgments	p. 99
About the Author	p. 101
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