Beasts Behave in Foreign Land [Paperback]

Winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize

Ruth Irup? Sanabrias second collection of poetry,Beasts Behave In Foreign Landexamines the internal landscape of a family confronting the psychological and emotional aftershocks of genocide and exile. Drawing on her personal experience during Argentinas military dictatorship (1976 to 1983), these poems emerge from the defining moment in which she had the opportunity to testify in the trials against the Fifth Army Corps in Bahia Blanca, thirty-seven years after soldiers kidnapped, tortured, and imprisoned her parents. Weaving metaphor, ekphrasis, and voice, Sanabrias poems pay tribute to the ways women in her family use art, music, and testimony to process the unspeakable and confront profound loss. Written in two sections and set in various cities throughout Argentina and the United States, the poems inBeasts Behave in Foreign Landexplore the insistence and resiliency of love.

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