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Winner, 2017 CantoMundo Poetry Prize. Paraiso, the first book in
the new CantoMundo Poetry Series, which celebrates the work of
Latino/a poets writing in English, is a pilgrimage against sorrow.
Erupting from a mother's death, the poems follow the speaker as he
tries to survive his grief. Catholicism, family, good rum . . .
these help, but the real medicine happens when the speaker pushes
into the cloud forest alone. In a Costa Rica far away from touristy
beaches, we encounter bus trips over the cold mountains of the
dead, drug dealers with beautiful dogs, and witches with cell
phones. Science fuses with religion, witchcraft is joined with
technology, and eventually grief transforms into belief.
Throughout, Paraiso defies categorization, mixing its beautiful
sonnets with playful games and magic cures for the reader. In the
process, moments of pure life mingle with the aftermath of a death.
In the fascinating collection of poems, In the Absence of Clocks,
poet Jacob Shores-Arguello takes readers on an illuminating voyage
through Ukrainian life. Set during the turmoil of the 2004 Orange
Revolution, when the country trembled in the wake of political
corruption and public outrage, Shores-Arguello's lyrics of a
revolution provide a glimpse into a world at once foreign and
familiar. Throughout the collection are the iconic images and
myriad juxtapositions of Ukrainian life. wolves howling in the snow
and bakers pounding early-morning loaves of bread; farmlands and
cities alike rocked by political transformation; gypsies and
protesters; opulent images of Byzantium and the concrete ghosts of
Chernobyl--all meet here at the crossroads of East and West,
democracy and communism, reality and mythology. As the narrator
travels across the Ukraine, he does much more than cross the
distances between Horlivka and Odessa or Kiev and the Black Sea. As
the tides of change swirl around him, they mirror his own search
for a cultural identity and history.
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