From Unincorporated Territory [ﾅmot]

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乕an (Guam), and the culture of his indigenous Chamoru people. "ﾅmot" is the Chamoru word for "medicine," commonly referring to medicinal plants. Traditional Chamoru healers were known as yo'蚓te; they gathered 蚓ot 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 蚓ot, offering healing from the traumas of colonialism, militarism, migration, environmental injustice, and the death of elders.


Author: Craig Santos Perez
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Omnidawn
Published: 04/05/2023
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.60h x 6.20w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781632431189


Award: National Book Awards - Winner