Might Kindred (The Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry)

By: Mónica Gomery

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Synopsis: The poems of Might Kindred wonder aloud: can we belong to one another, and &“can a people belong to a dreaming machine?&” Conjuring mountains and bodies of water, queer and immigrant poetics, beloveds both human and animal, Mónica Gomery explores the intimately personal and the possibility of a collective voice. Here anthems are sung and fall apart midsong. The speaker exchanges letters with her ancestors, is visited by a shadow sister, and interrogates what it means to make a home as a first-generation American. Winner of the Raz/Shumaker Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, the poems in Might Kindred are rooted in the body and its cousins, seeking the possibility of kinship, &“in case we might kindness, might ardor together.&” Belonging and unbelonging are claimed as part of the same complicated whole, and Gomery&’s intersections reach for something divine at the center.