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By Guiseppe getto<\/span><\/h4>\n

Familiar History<\/h1>\n

Poems<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the words of the always-incisive Corrinne Cleggs Hales,\u00a0Familiar History<\/em>\u00a0\u201cexpertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Guiseppe getto Familiar History PoemsIn the words of the always-incisive Corrinne Cleggs Hales,\u00a0Familiar History\u00a0\u201cexpertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives.\u201d\u00a0Poet Guiseppe GettoI was raised in rural Nevada, in a landscape shaped by nuclear fallout, extractive labor, and volatile family […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\n

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Read the title poem: \u201cFamiliar History<\/a>\u201d (previously published as \u201cThe Perimeter of History\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Poems About the American West From a Cultural Insider<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the words of the always-incisive Corrinne Cleggs Hales, Familiar History<\/em> \u201cexpertly de-romanticizes the landscape and mythology of the American west, revealing a world defined largely by struggle and failure and broken lives.\u201d The poems in these pages take an unflinching look at rural life in the Desert Southwest and reveal a world composed of harshly beautiful scenery, as reflected in the poem \"Burning Wishes\":<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Someone said they never saw a wild thing <\/em>
sorry for itself. Me neither, but it seemed sometimes <\/em>
like they ought to be. The bark beetles that crunch <\/em>
in and out of their white fir tunnels<\/em>
and branch outward until each thorax, leg, <\/em>
and instinct intersects, becoming a web <\/em>
meaning nothing.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A cold snap couples indeterminately with wind velocity <\/em>
and the fracture lines of ice particles, killing only incidentally.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The message is clear: in the universe of these poems, nature doesn't care about you or the meaning you give it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The book also reveals the child abuse, violence, racism, and poverty endemic to much of this region through the eyes of someone who spent nearly 30 years there. In the title poem, the narrator speaks directly to this relationship between the memories carried in human bodies and those held by the landscapes they inhabit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I will learn to seal everything up inside.<\/em>
We all will. In 1969 the desert will swallow<\/em>
an atom bomb whole. In 1969 <\/em>
my grandmother's pancreas will swallow <\/em>
too much of the awful light from a safe distance <\/em>
inside a bus. After awhile you begin <\/em>
to realize light in the desert can penetrate <\/em>
anything. A 1951 description <\/em>
of the Nevada Test Site, included in an Army brochure <\/em>
for the Camp Desert Rock soldiers, <\/em>
tells them that the desert is <\/em>a damned good place
for disposing of used razor blades. <\/em>
It is.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Familiar History<\/em> is equal parts a lyrical reflection on the relationship between humanity and the natural environment and a deeply personal revelation of the secrets of a family of malcontents. These poems about the American West tell a very different story from much of the pastoral literature on the region that has come before them. The narrator's story is the story of rural, impoverished America: a bitter tonic of regret, euphoria, and the search for salvation.<\/p>\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nFamiliar History: Poems About the American West<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Familiar History, my book of poems about the American West, is currently available from Finishing Line Press. 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