Portrait of us burning : poems / Sebastián H. Páramo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Páramo, Sebastián H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mexican Americans--Poetry.

Mexican Americans.

Mexican American families--Poetry.

Mexican American families.

Genre:

poetry.

Poetry

Poetry.

Physical Description:

101 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Curbstone Books/Northwestern University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"In his debut collection, Portrait of Us Burning, Sebastián H. Páramo explores how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his stepbrother and to his family's burning desire to become American"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Where Your Father Was

Portrait of Us

Portrait of My Father as a Failed Romantic

Diego Rivera, The Flower Carrier,

Self-Portrait as My Father, the Roofer

Where Your Mother Was

Portrait of a Firebird

Self-Portrait of the Firstborn's Questions

Footage of Us Playing

Watching The Lion King with My Father

Hibiscus

Dear Father

Self-Portrait as Half-Sibling

Diptych: Days of the Latchkey

Portrait of Rivalry

Portrait of a Reunion

Self-Portrait While Holding My Mother's Hand

The Laundromat Saint

Self-Portrait as My Mother's Blood

Portrait of What He Didn't Want

Unfaithful Father, Disobedient Son

When Father Sings

Portrait of a Boy Returning to Dirt

Stepping Through a Door

The Home Slaughter

Self-Portrait with Thunder & Exhaustion, or Self-Portrait as My Father Crossing

Your Portrait in Smoke

Portrait of Family I

Footage of Me Tomorrow

Not Pictured:

Burning

Portrait of the Unsaid

Portrait of Vows

Self-Portrait Looking Backward

My Mother's Blessing

Portrait of My Parents' Desire

Portrait of My Mother as the Love Embrace of the Universe, the Earth (Mexico), Myself, Diego, and Sen̳or Xolotl

After El Hombre by Rufino Tamayo

Big Tex Is on Fire!

Lost Footage of Us Playing

Studying Abroad in Mexico, Looking Up at Man of Fire by José Clemente Orozco

Footage of My Father Telling a Story about Dirt

When Father & I Speak

Father's Advice

Footage from the Field

Sobbing in a U-Haul

Diptych: Dreams on Fire

My Father Never Speaks about His Father

Blood & Breath

Footage of Me Yesterday

Portrait of Us Burning

Everything Is on Fire

When My Mother's Portrait Sings

Portrait of Family as a Bag of Worms

Portrait of Family II

Cajeta

Still Life with Salt on Fruit

Watching the End of the Film Paris, Texas

Forgive Me, Brother

Distant Father

The Ownership of the Night.

ISBN:

9780810146488

0810146487

OCLC:

1381467056