Tripas Poems
Tripas Poems by Brandon Som, published by University of Georgia Press on May 15, 2024, is a collection of 104 pages that explores the complexities of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood. In this work, Som honors his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who operated a family corner store. The poems reflect a dialogic approach to poetry, engaging with heritage languages and family memories, while examining themes of history, labor, and cultural intersection.
Readers will find that Som’s poetry enacts a unique form of storytelling that connects the narratives of his transnational communities. The collection delves into the experiences of migration and labor, highlighting the often-overlooked aspects of global capitalism. Through his lyricism, Som invites readers to consider the intricate relationships between cultures and the memories that shape them, creating a rich tapestry of voices and histories that resonate throughout the work.
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WINNER OF THE 2024 PULITZER PRIZE IN POETRY
Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry
With Tripas, Brandon Som follows up his award-winning debut with a book of poems built out of a multicultural, multigenerational childhood home, in which he celebrates his Chicana grandmother, who worked nights on the assembly line at Motorola, and his Chinese American father and grandparents, who ran the family corner store. Enacting a cómo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem-making that inventively listens to heritage languages and transcribes family memory, Som participates in a practice of mem(oir), placing each poem’s ear toward a confluence of history, labor, and languages, while also enacting a kind of “telephone” between cultures. Invested in the circuitry and circuitous routes of migration and labor, Som’s lyricism weaves together the narratives of his transnational communities, bringing to light what is overshadowed in the reckless transit of global capitalism and imagining a world otherwise-one attuned to the echo in the hecho, the oracle in the órale.
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