Title:
Promises of gold = Promesas de oro
Author:
Olivarez, José, author.
ISBN:
9781250878496
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Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xvi, 141, 141, xvi pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Poetry collection in English and translation into Spanish, bound tête-bêche.
Contents:
Folk Tales -- Ojalá Ojalá Ojalá -- Gold -- Untranslatable -- Receding -- Ojalá Ojalá Ojalá -- God -- Before Monday Arrives Like A Fist -- Glory -- Glory -- Glory.
Cuentos Populares -- Ojalá Ojalá Ojalá -- Oro -- Intraducible -- Retrocediendo -- Ojalá Ojalá Ojalá -- Dios -- Antes De Que El Lunes Llegue Como Un Pűno -- Gloria -- Gloria -- Gloria.
Abstract:
"A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love--self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural--is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a promise kept," as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions of the American Dream laying bare the ways in which "love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.""-- Provided by publisher.
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