New - STUDY/DISCUSSION GUIDE for Caulbearer !
Dear Friends,
Black Lawrence Press and I thank you for considering book adoption of Caulbearer for your creative writing/literature classes and workshops,
and your book and discussion groups.
As my way of thanking you for your support, I'm now able to offer
a beautiful study/discussion guide which my wonderful daughter
Gabriela helped me to conceptualize and create.
You can use the digital version, but youcan also print the pages to easily assemble
on your own (a helpful instruction guide is included).
Hoping that this resource deepens your enjoyment of the book!
Thank you so much,
Luisa
Original artwork by Gabriela A. Igloria
Black Lawrence Press and I thank you for considering book adoption of Caulbearer for your creative writing/literature classes and workshops,
and your book and discussion groups.
As my way of thanking you for your support, I'm now able to offer
a beautiful study/discussion guide which my wonderful daughter
Gabriela helped me to conceptualize and create.
You can use the digital version, but youcan also print the pages to easily assemble
on your own (a helpful instruction guide is included).
Hoping that this resource deepens your enjoyment of the book!
Thank you so much,
Luisa
Original artwork by Gabriela A. Igloria
Caulbearer is available for Pre-Order Now!
Dear Friends,
It is my absolute pleasure to let you know that the pre-order link for my newest book Caulbearer is LIVE!
Recipient of the 2023 Immigrant Series prize, Caulbearer will be released from Black Lawrence Press in August 2024.
It would mean the world to me and my publisher if you pre-order the book now, instead of waiting until August (pre-orders will be accepted until midnight of July 30, 2024). The price during the pre-sale period is $15.95. Afterwards, it will go back to the full retail price of $17.95.
Why should you Pre-Order Caulbearer?
1. For one thing, it has a beautiful, beautiful cover--
featuring art* by Elmer Borlongan, one of the Philippines’ foremost figurative expressionist painters.
[ * “Protecting Chisco,” oil on linen; with permission from the artist ]
2. Caulbearer has received praise from leading contemporary poets:
In this rapturous collection, Luisa A. Igloria maps sacred ecologies, violent histories, extracted geologies, and multispecies relations. Throughout, there is both praise and grief, as well as a desire to mouth nostalgia and feel the world before it is indelibly changed. Caulbearer invites us to witness the “unbearable cascade of beauty,” from the celestial birth and death of stars to the yucca moth laying eggs inside a flower. These poems reckon a salty truth: “we don’t know how long the world can hold / such specimens of tenderness.” — Craig Santos Perez
I count Luisa A. Igloria among a select tribe of memorializers who understand that the crepe myrtle and Bathala are chromatic kin. Caulbearer fuses the cosmic, the ecological, and the colonial, to give us a courageous meditation on the crises of beginnings and endings. “For now, this certainty…” the poet generously gestures. Whether the rambutan’s diastole, the fragrance of highland pine, or the motherly communion of sea and moon, these poems are a tender offering in the tumult of our time. — Patrick Rosal
In these remarkable poems, Luisa A. Igloria honors the gifts of nature and the chance to explore the fullness of our lives in partnership with the natural world even while lamenting the inevitability of its loss. Underscoring this environmental pain is the colonial harm enacted to a place and its people, to the land and the sea; all the while, the earth becomes a vessel for the grief we leave behind. Igloria perceptively threads past, present, and future—rich and beautifully textured—to humble us to the fragility of our existence. — Mai Der Vang
3. Pre-ordering Caulbearer furthers the chances of the book's success in the publishing world. Because pre-ordering is about metrics, it's the best way to help get people talking about it, increasing its chances for review and reception in more reading circles— like your book groups, writing workshops, classrooms, libraries, reading series, radio and interview features, festivals, and more.
4. Pre-ordering my book will help my publisher tremendously. When a book is purchased through other retailers like Amazon instead of directly from my publisher, it may have to wait up to 6 months to receive funds—so crucial to the operations of a small company like Black Lawrence Press in its efforts to support literature and writing.
5. Caulbearer will come with a reading and study guide in zine form - a downloadable and printable PDF (that I'm developing with the help of my daughter Gabriela) — to help you share the book with your reading and writing communities. Please watch my Black Lawrence Press page for that soon!
6. Though this book is not my first, it is close to my heart, coming together as it did out of this shared time of grief and anxiety—but also of tremulous hope. Some of you may have heard me read poems from it at virtual and other events. You may even have read individual poems when they were published in journals. These poems came together from so many interactions and shared experiences, and I am thrilled and honored to be able to put this book in your hands.
Thank you for reading, and most of all thank you for your continuing support! (Here's the pre-order link again.)
Please help me share this news with your other networks and communities.
Love and light,
Luisa
It is my absolute pleasure to let you know that the pre-order link for my newest book Caulbearer is LIVE!
Recipient of the 2023 Immigrant Series prize, Caulbearer will be released from Black Lawrence Press in August 2024.
It would mean the world to me and my publisher if you pre-order the book now, instead of waiting until August (pre-orders will be accepted until midnight of July 30, 2024). The price during the pre-sale period is $15.95. Afterwards, it will go back to the full retail price of $17.95.
Why should you Pre-Order Caulbearer?
1. For one thing, it has a beautiful, beautiful cover--
featuring art* by Elmer Borlongan, one of the Philippines’ foremost figurative expressionist painters.
[ * “Protecting Chisco,” oil on linen; with permission from the artist ]
2. Caulbearer has received praise from leading contemporary poets:
In this rapturous collection, Luisa A. Igloria maps sacred ecologies, violent histories, extracted geologies, and multispecies relations. Throughout, there is both praise and grief, as well as a desire to mouth nostalgia and feel the world before it is indelibly changed. Caulbearer invites us to witness the “unbearable cascade of beauty,” from the celestial birth and death of stars to the yucca moth laying eggs inside a flower. These poems reckon a salty truth: “we don’t know how long the world can hold / such specimens of tenderness.” — Craig Santos Perez
I count Luisa A. Igloria among a select tribe of memorializers who understand that the crepe myrtle and Bathala are chromatic kin. Caulbearer fuses the cosmic, the ecological, and the colonial, to give us a courageous meditation on the crises of beginnings and endings. “For now, this certainty…” the poet generously gestures. Whether the rambutan’s diastole, the fragrance of highland pine, or the motherly communion of sea and moon, these poems are a tender offering in the tumult of our time. — Patrick Rosal
In these remarkable poems, Luisa A. Igloria honors the gifts of nature and the chance to explore the fullness of our lives in partnership with the natural world even while lamenting the inevitability of its loss. Underscoring this environmental pain is the colonial harm enacted to a place and its people, to the land and the sea; all the while, the earth becomes a vessel for the grief we leave behind. Igloria perceptively threads past, present, and future—rich and beautifully textured—to humble us to the fragility of our existence. — Mai Der Vang
3. Pre-ordering Caulbearer furthers the chances of the book's success in the publishing world. Because pre-ordering is about metrics, it's the best way to help get people talking about it, increasing its chances for review and reception in more reading circles— like your book groups, writing workshops, classrooms, libraries, reading series, radio and interview features, festivals, and more.
4. Pre-ordering my book will help my publisher tremendously. When a book is purchased through other retailers like Amazon instead of directly from my publisher, it may have to wait up to 6 months to receive funds—so crucial to the operations of a small company like Black Lawrence Press in its efforts to support literature and writing.
5. Caulbearer will come with a reading and study guide in zine form - a downloadable and printable PDF (that I'm developing with the help of my daughter Gabriela) — to help you share the book with your reading and writing communities. Please watch my Black Lawrence Press page for that soon!
6. Though this book is not my first, it is close to my heart, coming together as it did out of this shared time of grief and anxiety—but also of tremulous hope. Some of you may have heard me read poems from it at virtual and other events. You may even have read individual poems when they were published in journals. These poems came together from so many interactions and shared experiences, and I am thrilled and honored to be able to put this book in your hands.
Thank you for reading, and most of all thank you for your continuing support! (Here's the pre-order link again.)
Please help me share this news with your other networks and communities.
Love and light,
Luisa