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The names of Guamanian soldiers killed in action in current U.S. He looks at his empty hands to pledge allegiance.” Wiry, short-lined verse is collaged with Chamorro (a threatened Malayo-Polynesian language) and public comments from Draft Environmental Impact Statements in Guam. The US passed the Guam Meritorious Claims act… His eyes become saltmemories thread fathoms of water. “By turns cultural and ecological artifact, personal narrative, body count, and colonial (and resistance) document, Perez’s third collection advances a disturbing, fractured narrative using an impressively wide swath of poetic forms and techniques: prose sections are interrupted by domestic and patriotic language, interweaving the Japanese and American captures of Guam (the author’s birthplace) with the narrator’s personal history and the current wars in the Middle East: “My grandpa o saina struggles to tell his story. The names of some of the courses that have taught my work: “Pacific Literature and Cultures,” “Indigenous Theory,” “Documentary Poetics and the Art of Witness,” “World Indigenous Literature,” “Contemporary Avant-Garde Poetry,” “Pacific Islander Studies,” “Approaches to the Poem,” “Poetry and Politics,” “Introduction to English Studies,” “Ecology and Poetry,” “Poetry of Place,” “Native Poetry,” “Arts of Africa, Oceania, and Native America,” “Discontiguous States of America,” and “Literatures of Oceania.” I am available for in-class or Skype visits. If you are an educator and interested in a desk copy, please leave a comment. Thomas University, University of Montana, Berkeley City College, and Kamehameha High School. John’s University, Mills College, California Institute of the Arts, City College of San Francisco, Queens College, University of North Carolina, Ohio State University, St. To Educators: My books have been adopted for courses in several disciplines at the University of Hawai’i (Manoa), University of Guam, Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand), Syracuse University, University of Kansas, San Francisco State University, Pacific University, University of California (Berkeley), University of California (Los Angeles), University of California (San Diego), University of California (Santa Cruz), Western Washington University, Los Medanos Community College, St. To Reviewers & Editors: If you would like a review copy of my book, please leave your contact info in the comments at the bottom of this page.