{"product_id":"geographic-tongue-rodney-gomez-9780807173985","title":"Geographic Tongue","description":"In \u003ci\u003eGeographic Tongue, \u003c\/i\u003e an important addition to the Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series, Rodney Gomez weaves together themes of loss, identity, ethnicity, heritage, and the mechanics of contemporary life to create a collection as lyrically arresting as it is aesthetically stunning. These visual poems, crafted with both restraint and vitality, are visceral in their depiction of cruelty and grief at the United States-Mexico border. And yet, this charged landscape also gives rise to moments of tenderness, stillness, and wry humor. Gomez's visual design is at once vivid and haunting, drawing together collage, diagrams, and abstract imagery into a bright, geometrically precise collection. His text casts such a powerful spell that in its absence, silence is heard as clearly as any phrase. Gomez writes, \"You don't have to speak to speak truth,\" and this lucid assertion is borne out in the collection as a whole. In its art, and in its silence, the poems of \u003ci\u003eGeographic Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e are undeniably and indelibly authentic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rodney Gomez\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0807173983\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807173985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Pleiades Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/15\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.86h x 7.06w x 0.29d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/05\/2020","brand":"Rodney Gomez","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989016019199,"sku":"9780807173985","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_16cfc343-dfbe-486e-ac63-749ae6be5cc7.jpg?v=1683297431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/geographic-tongue-rodney-gomez-9780807173985","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}