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Cenzontle (Paperback)
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo; Foreword by Brenda Shaughnessy
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R342
Discovery Miles 3 420
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Winner of the 2019 GLCA New Writers Award An NPR Best Book of 2018
In this highly lyrical, imagistic debut, Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
creates a nuanced narrative of life before, during, and after
crossing the US/Mexico border. These poems explore the emotional
fallout of immigration, the illusion of the American dream via the
fallacy of the nuclear family, the latent anxieties of living in a
queer brown undocumented body within a heteronormative marriage,
and the ongoing search for belonging. Finding solace in the
resignation to sheer possibility, these poems challenge us to
question the potential ways in which two people can interact, love,
give birth, and mourn—sometimes all at once.
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Dulce - Poems (Paperback)
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo; Foreword by Matthew Shenoda
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R406
Discovery Miles 4 060
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The poems in Dulce are at once confession and elegy that admit the
speaker’s attempt and possible failure to reconcile intimacy
toward another and toward the self. The collection asks: what’s
the point in any of this?—meaning, what’s the use of longing
beyond pleasure; what’s the use of looking for an origin if we
already know the ending? Surreal and deeply imagistic, the poems
map a parallel between the landscape of the border and the
landscape of sexuality. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo invites the
reader to confront and challenge the distinctions of borders and
categories, and in doing so, he obscures and negates such
divisions. He allows for the possibility of an and in a world of
either/or. These poems enact a prescient anxiety of what is to
come, “I want to say all of this is true / but we both know it
isn’t. . . . We already know what’s at the other
end of this.” Dulce is truly a lyrical force rife with the rich
language of longing and regret that disturbs even the most serene
quiet.
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