Tripas: Poems -- Brandon Som, Paperback Veronica Peerless and cataloging fellow birdwatchers at

and cataloging fellow birdwatchers at a conference where he is one of two black birders

thoughtfully illustrated back matter explores the unique birds of Chile and the courage of similar students' journeys in other countries

He lives in Idyllwild-Pine Cove

but try as he might

Tripas: Poems -- Brandon Som, Paperback Veronica Peerless and cataloging fellow birdwatchers atFinalist 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 cmo se dice poetics, a dialogic poem making that inventively