Tres Abuelas Una Mama
HOW TO GET INTO TROUBLE
BY TRES ABUELAS Y UNA MAMA
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How To Get Into Trouble is an inventive and moving poetry collection by the collaborative group Tres Abuelas y Una Mama (Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, Holly Iglesias, and Maureen Seaton). This is the second collection by these nationally recognized and diverse group of poets These collaborative and solo poems use playful and thoughtful artistry to delve into themes as diverse as time, infallibility, motherhood, democracy, and love. The book demonstrates once again the strength and creativity that can emerge from a shared spirit.
HOW TO GET INTO TROUBLE will delight you in every possible wicked (and sacred) way! Tres Abuelas y Una Mamá weave their poetry magic, collaborating on poems so sly you’ll never be sure which mamá wrote which (witch?) line. Now that you’ve had your cake and eaten it too, surrender to the wiles of your foolhardy heart and go wherever she wants to go. When the poets go solo (each poem is identified by initials) you still feel the influence of the other mamás. This is a gem of a chapbook with great advice— Call upon a fairy who is yourself. You’ll find yourself reading and chuckling then wanting to write poems, too, to join in the mischievous fun.”
HOW TO GET INTO TROUBLE
Shout what you think. Act what you feel.
Raise the uniform hem above the ruler’s rule, or wear short shorts, then tie your blouse above the waist, so your belly button shows.
Talk politics. Some will call you communist, the others fascist.
Take an Adderall. Write a twenty-two-page essay on Ezra Pound. Submit it to your professor without citing his book on Ezra Pound.
Be bipolar in the moonlight. Forget to howl. Go on the hunt alone. Rogue wolf awakens.
Do not make any decisions. Slide up the bumpy slide, against the current of everyone. How annoying.
Watch what you say, or they’ll be calling you a radical, liberal, fanatical, criminal. —Roger Hodgson, 1978
Depending on the type of trouble you plan to get into, drive down the street naked.
Speaking of getting into trouble in cars, drive into a lake.
Leave your room. Leave your house. Leave your neighborhood, your town, your country, your continent, your hemisphere, your people, your language, your music, your food.
Desire cake, the whole Platonic ideal of cake. Want it so bad that your mind becomes a hive of hunger and your body a ravenous mass of desire.
Now that you’ve had your cake and eaten it too, surrender to the wiles of your foolhardy heart and go wherever she wants to go.
— CH, NHM, HI, MSW
MYTH AMERICA: POEMS IN COLLABORATION
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Tres Abuelas Y Una Mamá: Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, Holly Iglesias, Maureen Seaton
Four nationally acclaimed and emerging poets from diverse backgrounds and generations merge to create a remarkable collaboration. Carolina Hospital, Nicole Hospital-Medina, Holly Iglesias and Maureen Seaton call themselves “Tres abuelas y una mamá.” For two years these poets met once a week to tackle old and new ways of poetic experimentation. Through shared lines or shared themes, sonnets, pantoums, triptychs, and haibuns, this compilation takes on historical, civic, and domestic violence, mental health, and feminism. These masterful poems are political and existential, as well as intimate and spiritual. In an age of growing discord, this book’s transcendental force lies in its banded energy.
MYTH AMERICA
First grade ritual: the daily rosary
she runs hard and skips until the fall
bloody scrape rather than taking a knee.
She remembers the boy being forced to crawl
across the field while his papa looked away,
and her knee stinging down the hall.
She leans in, her silk sleeve against his cheek
as he in fealty — her champion, her swain —
lowers himself, back bent, demeanor meek.
She thinks: Kill me now, and hops a train
to a land where no one’s heard of chivalry
or helplessness: two sides of a fake coin.
On the gridiron he kneels, not to pray
but to jolt a nation long asleep.
She ascends without a stumble, leaps and slays.
— CH, NHM, HI, MS