The Lesser Tragedy of Death
By Cristina García and Chris Abani
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“[A] brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray; with skill, unflinching honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina García tracks his marvelous, complex, and errant life…These poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother she loves. With this first book of poems, García, one of our best novelists and storytellers, proves herself to be a talented poet as well.”—Julia Alvarez, author of Saving the World
“Garcia’s spare language lucidly invokes the brother’s insistence on remaining a wreck and the speaker’s helplessness to stop him.”—The Adirondack Review
Cristina García
Cristina García is the author of eight novels including Dreaming in Cuban, The Agüero Sisters, Monkey Hunting, A Handbook to Luck, The Lady Matador’s Hotel, King of Cuba, Here in Berlin, and Vanishing Maps. Her work has been nominated for a National Book Award and translated into fifteen languages. She has taught at universities nationwide and is currently Resident Playwright at Central Works Theater in Berkeley. Visit her website at CristinaGarciaNovelist.com.
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The Lesser Tragedy of Death - Cristina García
BLACK GOAT is an independent poetry imprint of Akashic Books created and curated by award-winning Nigerian author Chris Abani. Black Goat is committed to publishing well-crafted poetry, focusing on experimental and thematically challenging work. The series aims to create a proportional representation of female and non-American poets, with an emphasis on Africans. Series titles include:
Gomer’s Song by Kwame Dawes
The Ravenous Audience by Kate Durbin
Globetrotter & Hitler’s Children by Amatoritsero Ede
Abstraktion und Einfühlung by Percival Everett
Auto Mechanic’s Daughter by Karen Harryman
Controlled Decay by Gabriela Jauregui
eel on reef by Uche Nduka
Conduit by Khadijah Queen
to be hung from the ceiling by strings of varying length by Rick Reid
This is a work of fiction. All names, characters, places, and incidents are a product of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to real events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Published by Akashic Books
©2010 Cristina García
ePUB ISBN-13: 978-1-936-07079-4
ISBN-13: 978-1-936070-01-5
Library of Congress Control Number: 2009939083
All rights reserved
Black Goat
c/o Akashic Books
PO Box 1456
New York, NY 10009
www.akashicbooks.com
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Acknowledgments
Mil gracias to Dean Rader for his generosity and brilliance.
Thank you to Donna Seaman and to Triquarterly for publishing Twenty-Nine Palms,
and to Daniel Shapiro for including Spell,
Brownstone,
Twenty-Nine Palms,
Namesake,
and What You Dream
in Review 78, Literature and Arts of the Americas. Also, my gratitude to Craig Perez and Jennifer Reimer of Achiote