{"product_id":"be-patria-rivera-9781897109526","title":"Be","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe flesh of blood and memory populates the world of \u003ci\u003eBE\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of poems that stubbornly seek human identity in an increasingly inhumane world. In micropoetic narratives, the collective I says, \"I am here,\" and proceeds to explore the insular and peculiar ways language, emotion, and truth-telling scour the painful moments of vision that lurk beneath calm and unknown depths.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are things one cannot ever hope to understand. Does existence precede essence even if essence was available? In a collage of disparate images, the \u003ci\u003eBE\u003c\/i\u003e poems spin together individual and collective states of feelings to examine the fragments of the human condition in little existences. Picture the man and woman wandering forlornly through an abandoned universe or what happens to some of the people in the villages, in the feudal backwaters where inhabitants become stupefied, brutalized and spiritually impoverished, yet to the outside world appear to suffer a quiet, gentle contentment and peace. Or how we all live by pushing rocks up slopes, or as in some of the poet's characters, by bottling the ashes of a once-dormant-now-live volcano for hawking to tourists as souvenirs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrooding. Teasing. Questioning. Doubting. Discovering. The quest could be tragic or comic, but the endeavour could stretch the most ordinary things into new shapes and meanings. As an assemblage, \u003ci\u003eBE\u003c\/i\u003e proves that it is possible to recover a semblance of reality, if not truth itself, through inferences that quite closely resemble it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Patria Rivera\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1897109520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781897109526\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Signature Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.30d","brand":"Patria Rivera","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48486225576191,"sku":"9781897109526","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_391f2f4a-960b-4dfc-a8fa-15557bb4540d.jpg?v=1778054451","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/be-patria-rivera-9781897109526","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}