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We borrowed gentleness / J. Estanislao Lopez.
Van Pelt Library PS3612.O623 W4 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lopez, J. Estanislao, author.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 82 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Gloucester, ME : Alice James Books, [2022]
- Summary:
- "We Borrowed Gentleness interrogates the power structures we inherit and the patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. 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. Poems examine intergenerational trauma and how language has a measurable effect on the cognitive shaping of reality"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Independence Day in West Texas
- Little Words
- The Contract
- Promise
- The Politics of Rivers
- Let's Not Get Carried Away
- Theodicy Written in the Occupied Sands
- Diaspora
- Alternate Ending: Solomon's Misjudgment
- Laredo Duplex
- The Offering
- Patterns
- A Miracle
- Elegy in the Absence of Answers
- My Uncle's Killer
- Porvenir
- The New Regime
- The Framework of an Imaginary Nation
- Like It Is
- Alternate Ending: The Unrecorded Bitterness of Abraham
- Knowing Children
- Dream of God as a Venture Capitalist
- Anti-Ode to the Metaphysical
- The Ghosts of My Past Are in Disrepair
- Living in the Moment
- Alternate Ending: The Invention of Science
- Reasons to Despise Being Literary
- The Family Endures Magritte's Revisions of La Chambrc d'Ecoute
- How to Confront the Past
- Erik Estrada Defends His Place in the Canon
- Intelligent Design
- Erosion
- Ism
- False Cognates
- Speaking Ill of the Dead
- Elegy with No Tenor
- Elongations
- The Vestigial
- The Untranslatable
- The Aphids
- Astrophysics
- Alternate Ending: The Escape of Jephthah's Daughter
- Meditation on the Last Prayer
- The Interval
- Pastoral
- A Man's Apology
- The Word
- Meditation on Beauty
- The Burning Field
- A Force Equal to the Weight of the Fluid Displaced
- The Maker
- Alternate Beginning: The Sixth Day
- Places with Terrible Wi-Fi
- Static
- In Praise of Weakness
- At Last, Surrender.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lopez, J. Estanislao. We borrowed gentleness
- ISBN:
- 9781948579285
- 1948579286
- OCLC:
- 1310786863
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