Thu, Apr 27
|Collected Works Bookstore
Tommy Archuleta, Susto
Tommy will be reading from his debut full-length collection of poems and will be in conversation with poet Dana Levin. “A searing, unforgettable debut comprising poems that read like incantations for survival." —Matt Donovan
Date, Time & Location
Apr 27, 2023, 6:00 PM MDT
Collected Works Bookstore, 202 Galisteo St, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA
About the Event
This will be an in-store presentation and we will also live stream the evening on Zoom, please register to watch here.
Purchase Susto by calling the store to order (505) 988-4226.
Surreal yet earthbound, orphaned yet mothered more than most, comforting yet disturbing— Tommy Archuleta’s Susto surveys many settings: the body, the soul, the terrain the soul encounters upon leaving the body. But the setting is also the high desert landscape that is the poet’s northern New Mexico home, a land whose beauty today is as silencing and brutal as was the colonization of the region and her Anasazi descendants by Archuleta’s Spanish antipasados.
In Susto, loss is everywhere to be found, though this work is not merely a concerted meditation on lament. Rather, it is part unearthed family album; part unlocked diary; part ode to motherhood and her various forms; part manual on preparing for a happy death; and…