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Review ------ Transmotion" Craig Santos Perez is quite simply writing some of the most significant poetry of the early 21st century. Employing struck-through lists of dead soldiers, fractured diary entries on a return to Guam or shoplifting Vienna Sausages, public comments from Draft Environmental Impact Statements, and searing poems of brevity and heart, Perez is re-ping a post-colonial America, one pitch-perfect syllable at a time. Mark Nowak, author ofCoal ain Elementary" The journeys that we are meant to take through [Perez s] texts are just as much through time and history as they are across oceans in the Pacific. Michael Lujan, Transmotion" "The journeys that we are meant to take through [Perez's] texts are just as much through time and history as they are across oceans in the Pacific."--Michael Lujan "Transmotion" (4/14/2015 12:00:00 AM) "Craig Santos Perez is quite simply writing some of the most significant poetry of the early 21st century. Employing struck-through lists of dead soldiers, fractured diary entries on a return to Guam or shoplifting Vienna Sausages, public comments from Draft Environmental Impact Statements, and searing poems of brevity and heart, Perez is re-ping a post-colonial America, one pitch-perfect syllable at a time."--Mark Nowak, author of Coal ain Elementary "Transmotion" (1/1/2013 12:00:00 AM) "This fourth installment in Perez's "from Unincorporated Territory" series marks an important shift in aesthetic strategy and lyric impulse. . . . Perez condenses his overarching sociopolitical concerns, bracketing the story of pregnancy, birth, an uncertain future, and a celebration of new life."--Mark Nowak, author of Coal ain Elementary "Publishers Weekly" (1/1/2013 12:00:00 AM) Read more ( javascript:void(0) ) About the Author ---------------- CRAIG SANTOS PEREZ, co-star of the poetry album Undercurrent, is author of two previous collections, a finalist for LA Times 2010 Poetry Book Prize, and winner of 2011 PEN Center USA Literary Poetry Award. He lives in Honolulu and teaches creative writing and Pacific literature at University of Hawai?i, at Manoa. Read more ( javascript:void(0) )