{"product_id":"unthinkable-tenderness-juan-gelman-9780520205871","title":"Unthinkable Tenderness: Selected Poems","description":"Juan Gelman is Argentina's leading poet, but his work has been almost unknown in the United States until now. In 2000, he received the Juan Rulfo Award, one most important literary awards in the Spanish-speaking world, and in 2007, he received the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's top literary prize. With this selection, chosen and superbly translated by Joan Lindgren, Gelman's lush and visceral poetry comes alive for an English-speaking readership.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGelman is a stark witness to the brutality of power, and his poems reflect his suffering at the hands of the Argentine military government (his son, daughter-in-law, and grandchild were \"disappeared\"). While political idealism infuses his writing, he is not a servant of ideology. Themes of family, exile, the tango, Argentina, and Gelman's Jewish heritage resonate throughout his poems, works that celebrate life while confronting heartache and loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"remembering their little bones when it rains\/ the comparosstomp on darkness\/set forth from death\/wander the tender night\/I hear their voices like living faces\"-from \u003ci\u003eRemembering Their Little Bones\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Juan Gelman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520205871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520205871\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/21\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.54w x 0.66d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/1997 pg. 103","brand":"Juan Gelman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43919938257151,"sku":"9780520205871","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_55c83cc6-040a-402e-8c6c-9e3402ca0c4b.jpg?v=1680812738","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unthinkable-tenderness-juan-gelman-9780520205871","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}