Albert Abonado’s forthcoming poetry collection, Field Guide for Accidents, is on sale October 22 from Beacon Press.
Field Guide for Accidents is a winner of the National Poetry Series, selected by Mahogony Browne. The collection is a meditation on living in the peripheries of a hyphenated Filipino-American identity, the reverberations of cultural memory, and the embodied ways we carry love and loss.
Intricately physical and simultaneously surreal, Abonado expertly reveals images of family hauntings, Filipino folklore, and blessings given in garlic and ginger, exploring the amorphous worlds of memory, spirituality, and mortality. National Book Award winning poet Chen Chen has advance praise for Field Guide for Accidents.
