{"product_id":"9781632431189-from-unincorporated-territory-amot","title":"Perez Craig Santos - From Unincorporated Territory Amot - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: Winner of the National Book Award for Poetry this collection of experimental and visual poems dives into the history and culture of the poet's homeland Guam. This book is the fifth collection in Craig Santos Perez's ongoing from unincorporated territory series about the history of his homeland the western Pacific island of Gu han (Guam) and the culture of his indigenous Chamoru people. mot is the Chamoru word for medicine commonly referring to medicinal plants. Traditional Chamoru healers were known as yo mte; they gathered mot in the jungle and recited chants and invocations of taotao mona or ancestral spirits in the healing process. Through experimental and visual poetry Perez explores how storytelling can become a symbolic form of mot offering healing from the traumas of colonialism militarism migration environmental injustice and the death of elders.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: From Unincorporated Territory Amot\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Perez Craig Santos\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Omnidawn Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781632431189\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 148 Pages\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 4\/5\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Places \u0026amp; Peoples: General \u0026amp; Pictorial Works","brand":"Perez Craig Santos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49622169059633,"sku":"IN-G-9781632431189","price":19.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781632431189.jpg?v=1724703256","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781632431189-from-unincorporated-territory-amot","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}