Tripas Some of Those Metaphors Are

Some of Those Metaphors Are Literary - Devices for Making Thoughts More Vivid or Entertaining

All Are United Not Just by What They Did in Their Own Lifetimes

Pieternella is the Daughter of Eva

She Has Survived a Disturbing Affair With a Former Teacher

Love and War

Tripas Some of Those Metaphors AreWinner 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 Como Se Dice