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Deborah Paredez

Year of the Dog

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In the tradition of women as the unsung keepers of history, Deborah Paredez’s second poetry collection tells her story as a Latina daughter of the Vietnam War.

The title refers to the year 1970—the “year of the Metal Dog” in the lunar calendar—which was the year of the author’s birth, the year of her father’s deployment to Vietnam with a troop of Mexican-American immigrant soldiers, and a year of tremendous upheaval across the United States. Images from iconic photographs and her father’s snapshots are incorporated, fragmented, scrutinized, and reconstructed throughout the collection as Paredez recalls untold stories from a war that changed her family and the nation.

In poems and lamentations that evoke Hecuba, the mythic figure so consumed by grief over the atrocities of war that she was transformed into a howling dog, and La Llorona, the weeping woman in Mexican folklore who haunts the riverbanks in mourning and threatens to disturb the complicity of those living in the present, Paredez recontextualizes the historical moments of the Vietnam era, from the arrest of Angela Davis to the haunting image of Mary Ann Vecchio at the Kent State Massacre, never forgetting the outcry and outrage that women’s voices have carried across time.
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  • Menna Abu Zahraje citiralaпре 3 године
    and a professor of creative writing and ethnic studies at Columbia University
  • Menna Abu Zahraje citiralaпре 3 године
    Recent works that have left their mark on mine: Don Mee Choi’s Hardly War, Martha Collins’s Blue Front, and Solmaz Sharif’s Look. And always: Gwendolyn Brooks loitering in Mississippi.
  • Menna Abu Zahraje citiralaпре 3 године
    This book began to germinate during my residency at the Hedgebrook Center for Women Writers in August 2012. Special thanks to the Hedgebrook librarian,

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