We Borrowed Gentleness by J Estanislao Lopez
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781948579285 |
| ISBN 10 | 1948579286 |
| Title | We Borrowed Gentleness |
| Author | J Estanislao Lopez |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alice James Books |
| Year published | 2022-10-11 |
| Number of pages | 100 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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