{"product_id":"furious-dusk-david-campos-9780268023775","title":"Furious Dusk","description":"\u003cp\u003eRhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andr駸 Montoya Poetry Prize, describes \u003ci\u003eFurious Dusk\u003c\/i\u003e, David Campos's winning collection, as \"a work whose five parts trace a son's efforts--only partially successful--to fulfill his father's expectations and--perhaps even more difficult--understand those expectations enough to forgive them.\" The poet's reflections are catalyzed by learning of his father's impending death, which, in turn, forces him to examine his father's expectations against his own evolving concept of what it means to be a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems' speaker sifts through his past to find the speckles of memory that highlight the pressures to fit the mold of masculinity forged both by the Mexican culture of his father and the American culture he inhabits. The problematic norms of both rip the speaker in two directions as he recounts his father's severe parenting, as he explores the inability to father a child, as he witnesses human suffering, as he overeats and confronts the effects on his body, and, finally, as he realizes what it means to transcend these expectations. The speaker's epiphany frees him to reject masculine stereotypes and allows him to see himself simply as a human being. That realization, in turn, enables the speaker to see his father not only as \"father,\" \"husband,\" and \"man,\" but as a citizen of Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Campos's bold imagery and accessible language and themes, he memorably adds to the continuing conversation of the effects of cultural expectations on the children of immigrant parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Campos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0268023778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268023775\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 86\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/07\/2015 pg. 30","brand":"David Campos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981526237439,"sku":"9780268023775","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_06d82f55-8589-4173-b266-aae4cd2ed8f1.jpg?v=1683256098","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/furious-dusk-david-campos-9780268023775","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}