Promises of Gold [Paperback]

How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic lovebut what about our friends? Those homies who are there all alongcheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.

In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Jos? Olivarez explores every kind of loveself, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural. Grappling with the contradictions of the American Dream with unflinching humanity, he lays bare the ways in which love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.

Whether readers enter this collection in English or via the Spanish translation by poet David Ruano Gonz?lez, these extraordinary poems are sure to become beloved for their illuminations of lifeand love.

?Cu?ntas malas parejas han inspirado poemas? ?Cu?ntos crush es? Sin faltarle el respeto al amor rom?nticopero ?qu? hay de los amigos? Esos compas que est?n ah? todo el tiempoanim?ndonos y record?ndonos que elamor es abundante.

En esta innovadora colecci?n de poemas, Jos? Olivarez explora cada tipo de amorel propio, fraternal, rom?ntico, familiar, cultural. Lidiando con las contradicciones del sue?o americano, con una humanidad inquebrantable, deja al descubierto las maneras en que el amor se va complicando por fuerzas m?s grandes que nuestros corazones.

Ya sea que los lectores entren a esta colecci?n en ingl?s o a partir de la traducci?n al espa?ol del poeta David Ruano Gonz?lez, estos extraordinarios poemas ser?n amados seguramente por sus iluminaciones sobre el amor y la vida.

Jos? Olivarezis the son of Mexican immigrants. His debut book of poems,Citizen Illegal, was a finalist for the PEN/Jean Stein Award and a winner of the 2018 Chicago Review of Books Poetry Prize. It was named a top book of 2018 by theAdroit Journal, NPR, and the New York Public Library. Along with Felicia Chavez and Willie Perdomo, he coedited the poetry anthologyThe BreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNextl³«