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    Furious Dusk
    Furious Dusk
    Furious Dusk
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    Furious Dusk

    By David Campos

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    Rhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, describes Furious Dusk, David Campos’s winning collection, as "a work whose five parts trace a son’s efforts—only partially successful—to fulfill his father’s expectations and—perhaps even more difficult—understand those expectations enough to forgive them.” The poet's reflections are catalyzed by learning of his father’s impending death, which, in turn, forces him to examine his father’s expectations against his own evolving concept of what it means to be a man.

    The poems' speaker sifts through his past to find the speckles of memory that highlight the pressures to fit the mold of masculinity forged both by the Mexican culture of his father and the American culture he inhabits. The problematic norms of both rip the speaker in two directions as he recounts his father’s severe parenting, as he explores the inability to father a child, as he witnesses human suffering, as he overeats and confronts the effects on his body, and, finally, as he realizes what it means to transcend these expectations. The speaker’s epiphany frees him to reject masculine stereotypes and allows him to see himself simply as a human being. That realization, in turn, enables the speaker to see his father not only as “father,” “husband,” and “man,” but as a citizen of Earth.

    Through Campos’s bold imagery and accessible language and themes, he memorably adds to the continuing conversation of the effects of cultural expectations on the children of immigrant parents.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherUniversity of Notre Dame Press
    Release dateFeb 1, 2015
    ISBN9780268077334
    Furious Dusk
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    David Campos

    David Campos is the son of Mexican immigrants, a CantoMundo fellow, and the author of Furious Dusk (University of Notre Dame Press, 2015) which won the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. His poems and other work have appeared in Prairie Schooner, the American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, and Queen Mob's Teahouse among many others. He teaches English at Fresno City College. For more information, visit his website at www.davidcampos.co.

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      Furious Dusk - David Campos

      THE ANDRÉS MONTOYA POETRY PRIZE

      2004, Pity the Drowned Horses, Sheryl Luna

      Final Judge: Robert Vasquez

      2006, The Outer Bands, Gabriel Gomez

      Final Judge: Valerie Martínez

      2008, My Kill Adore Him, Paul Martínez Pompa

      Final Judge: Martín Espada

      2010, Tropicalia, Emma Trelles

      Final Judge: Silvia Curbelo

      2012, A Tongue in the Mouth of the Dying, Laurie Ann Guerrero

      Final Judge: Francisco X. Alarcón

      2014, Furious Dusk, David Campos

      Final Judge: Rhina P. Espaillat

      The Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, named after the late California native and author of the award-winning book, The Iceworker Sings, supports the publication of a first book by a Latino or Latina poet. Awarded every other year, the prize is administered by Letras Latinas—the literary program of the Institute for Latino Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

      FURIOUS DUSK

      DAVID CAMPOS

      University of Notre Dame Press

      Notre Dame, Indiana

      Copyright © 2015 by David Campos

      Published by the University of Notre Dame Press

      Notre Dame, Indiana 46556

      undpress.nd.edu

      All Rights Reserved

      e-ISBN: 978-0-268-07705-1

      This e-Book was converted from the original source file by a third-party vendor. Readers who notice any formatting, textual, or readability issues are encouraged to contact the publisher at [email protected]

      For my parents

      And for my wife

      CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction to the Poems by Rhina P. Espaillat

      I

      Hunting

      Fourth-Grade Lunch

      Lion’s Den

      Cast Iron

      To Sing

      Soccer Practice

      Drywall Dust

      The Call

      II

      After One Year of Trying

      Washing Dishes

      Inheritance

      Prayer

      Hollywood Endings

      Museum of Natural History

      Skin

      Need

      III

      Designated Driver

      I Make My First Delivery

      At the Entrance of a Back Alley

      Monster

      Molting

      A Wage-Claim Conference in Fresno

      At the Unemployment Office

      Wash

      Fences

      IV

      Thirst

      Lizard Blood

      Stones

      Diet

      330-Pound Man Exercises

      Bowl

      Pica

      The Measuring Tape of a Dressmaker

      Last Words

      The Stones from the Water

      V

      After Hearing of My Father’s Passing

      Ars Poetica

      Where the Sirens Go

      Open Letter

      The Language of Masa

      I Left You a Note

      Addressing a Letter to My Father

      Birthday Dinner

      He Holds Out His Hands

      Lost Letter to Kees

      Dusk

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      I would like to thank the editors of the following magazines and journals where the following poems, and earlier versions of them, including under different titles, have appeared:

      Drywall Dust and He Holds Out His Hands have appeared in The American Poetry Review.

      After Hearing of My Father’s Passing has appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review.

      Cast Iron and Where the Sirens Go have appeared in Connotation Press.

      After One Year of Trying and Dusk have appeared in Huizache.

      I Make My First Delivery has appeared in In the Grove.

      Lost Letter to Kees, Pica, Fences, Lizard Blood, and Addressing a Letter to My Father" have appeared in Miramar.

      Need and Thirst have appeared in Mosaic.

      Hunting and Fourth-Grade Lunch have appeared in Oranges & Sardines.

      Bowl has appeared in The Packinghouse Review.

      Birthday Dinner has appeared in

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