Description: This deeply moving collection of "ethnographic poetry" by the renowned cultural theorist Renato Rosaldo focuses on the immediate aftermath of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981, the day after she and her family had arrived in a northern Philippines village where Shelly and Renato were to conduct fieldwork.
Review Quotes: "This text is revolutionary; it presents another way, a new way of making poetry matter."
--Juan Felipe Herrera "Los Angeles Review of Books"