Promises of gold = Promesas de oro / José Olivarez ; traducción al español de David Ruano González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olivarez, José, author.

Contributor:

Ruano González, David, translator.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Olivarez, José--Translations into Spanish.

Olivarez, José.

Love--Poetry.

Love.

American Dream--Poetry.

American Dream.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Upside-down books.

Physical Description:

xvi, 141, 2, 141, xvi pages ; illustrations : 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Promesas de oro

Place of Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023.

Summary:

"A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love-self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural-is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores many forms of love and how "a promise made isn't always a promise kept," as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions of the American Dream laying bare the ways in which "love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.""-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. FOLK TALES

1. Tradition

2. Folk

3. Love Poem Beginning With A Yellow Cab

4. Wealth

II. OJALA OJALA OJALA

1. Ode To Tortillas

2. Nation of Domination

3. In the Dream

4. Bulls Vs. Suns, 1993

5. Another Cal City Poem

6. Ojala: My Homie

7. Upward Mobility

8. REGRET OR MY DAD SAYS LOVE

9. BLACK & MILD

10. RIVER OAKS MALL

III. GOLD

1. Pedro Explains Magical Realism

2. Chosen

3. Fathers

4. An Almost Sonnet For My Mom's Almost Life

5. Poem With Corpse Flowers & No Corpses

6. Its Only Day Whatever Of The Quarantine & I'm Already Daydreaming About Robbing Rich People

7. Poem With A Little Less Aggression

8. Maybach Music

9. Card Declined

10. Middle Class In This MF

11. Canelo Alvarez is the Champ

12. Bad Mexican Sonnet

13. Poem Where No one is Deported

IV. UNTRANSLATABLE

1. American Tragedy

2. Cal City Winter

3. On The Signing Of The North American Free Trade Agreement

4. Ojala: Me & My Guys

5. Poetry Is Not Therapy

6. Before We Got Comfortable Saying Love, We Dapped

7. Ojala: I Hate Heartbreak

8. Haram

9. Healing

10. More, Please

11. Two Truths & A Lie

V. RECEDING

1. Pedro Gets Asked About His Big Brother

2. Happening Sonnet

3. Authenticity

4. Loyalty

5. Poem Where I Learn To Eat Escargot

6. Some Words Look Nice Until You Try Them On

7. Wherever I'm at That Land Is Chicago

VI. OJALA OJALA OJALA

1. Nate Calls Me Soft

2. Love Poem (Feat. Chani Nicholas)

3. All The Names We Say Because We Don't Say Love

4. Cal City Love Poem

5. Most

6. Mercedes Says She Prefers The Word "Discoteca" To The Word "Club"

7. February & My Love Is In Another State

8. Ugly

VII. GOD

1. Origin Story

2. In Calumet City

3. Now I'm Bologna

4. My Sociology

5. No Time To Wait

6. Mercedes Says Hyacinths Look Like Little Firework Shows

7. Miracle

8. Ruben's Poem

VIII. BEFORE MONDAY ARRIVES LIKE A FIST

1. Arspoetica

2. Eviction Notice

3. Moonshine

4. Llorar

5. United Enemies

6. Harlem Snapshot

7. Faq

8. Sunday Love

IX. GLORY

1. Between Us & Liberation

2. Escargot

3. Eating Taco Bell With Mexicans

4. Maybe God Is Mexican

5. It's True

6. Despecho Hour At The Casa Azul Restaurante Y Cantina

7. Hopeful Cal City Poem

8. Mexican Heaven ("the mexicans said no thank you to heaven

-")

X. GLORY

1. Perder

2. Inspiration

3. I Walk Into The Ocean

4. Roses & Lilies

5. Justice Is For The Living

6. Mexican Heaven ("forget heaven & its promises of gold

XI. GLORY

1. No More Sad Mexicans

2. Mexican Heaven ("when my uncle got to heaven")

3. Another Harlem Poem

4. Ojala: Self-Love

5. Down To My Elbows

6. Rebuttal

7. Shelter Island

8. Let's Get Married

9. Related: The Sky Is Dope.

Notes:

Poetry collection in English and translation into Spanish, bound tête-bêche.

Contains:

Container of: Olivarez, José. Promises of gold.

Container of: Olivarez, José. Promises of gold. Spanish

Other Format:

Online version: Olivarez, José. Promises of gold

ISBN:

9781250878496

1250878497

OCLC:

1310764201