{"product_id":"ballad-of-a-happy-immigrant-leonardo-boix-9781784743512","title":"Ballad of a Happy Immigrant","description":"\u003cb\u003e'It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo Boix's poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open' Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'They are sailors from another century, stalwart \/ captured on daguerrotype, casually masculine, tender of heart.'\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the middle of the last century, the SS \u003ci\u003eGeneral Pueyrred\u003c\/i\u003e from Buenos Aires deposits Leo Boix's paternal grandfather on English soil for the first time. In the two years he spends there, he acquires a taste for his new homeland: from taking his tea white - \u003ci\u003emuy blanco \u003c\/i\u003e- to plunging into unfamiliar sensual worlds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo begins the poet's own journey, arriving in the United Kingdom as a young queer man. \u003ci\u003eBallad of a Happy Immigrant\u003c\/i\u003e tells of the life he makes there: a dazzling collection of what it means to live, love and write between two cultures and traditions. Effortlessly moving between the English imagination and Spanish language, it is a boundless exploration of otherness and home, and the personal transformation that follows between 'loss \/ and a life \/ that starts anew.' \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e*A Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Leonardo Boix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1784743518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781784743512\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Chatto \u0026amp; Windus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/27\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.30w x 0.30d","brand":"Leonardo Boix","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078641938687,"sku":"9781784743512","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11a7ab77-b117-4b76-bf22-9bdb76347d49.jpg?v=1685476670","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ballad-of-a-happy-immigrant-leonardo-boix-9781784743512","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}