We Borrowed Gentleness by Lopez, J. Estanislao

We Borrowed Gentleness (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781948579285)

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We Borrowed Gentleness by Lopez, J. Estanislao

We Borrowed Gentleness

$17.95
We Borrowed Gentleness by Lopez, J. Estanislao

We Borrowed Gentleness

$17.95
Format: Paperback
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We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction--through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. Poems critique and challenge the patriarchal narratives that dominate American history.

The poems leave the question open of whether man, men, a father and son, are redeemable after the surge of rising white nationalism in America. And yet, there are poems that find, still, bits of joy and perhaps a shred of hope.

By juxtaposing poems of louder narrative imagination with quieter poems that explore intimate failings within a family, often portrayed with a realist aesthetic, the book attempts to work through the essential fault in man, in men--in the structures that they design and maintain.

Author: J. Estanislao Lopez
ISBN-10: 1948579286
ISBN-13: 9781948579285
Publisher: Alice James Books
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.30d

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Shelf Awareness 10/21/2022
By J. Estanislao Lopez
By J. Estanislao Lopez
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J. Estanislao Lopez's poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, Adroit Journal, Boston Review, BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext, and elsewhere. He has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best New Poets, and Best of the Net. His debut collection, We Borrowed Gentleness, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in October 2022. He earned an MFA from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers and lives in Houston.

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