9781913007010-1913007014-Hijito

Hijito

ISBN-13: 9781913007010
ISBN-10: 1913007014
Author: Carlos Andres Gomez
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Platypus Press
Format: Paperback 64 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781913007010
ISBN-10: 1913007014
Author: Carlos Andres Gomez
Publication date: 2019
Publisher: Platypus Press
Format: Paperback 64 pages

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Hijito (ISBN-13: 9781913007010 and ISBN-10: 1913007014), written by authors Carlos Andres Gomez, was published by Platypus Press in 2019. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Hijito (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Poetry. In HIJITO--selected by Eduardo C. Corral as winner of the 2018 Broken River Prize--Carlos Andrés Gómez writes of brutality and beauty with the same urgency and with a truth that burns readily; it is a collection of survival instincts. As a vital and tender exploration and deconstruction of contemporary society, his poetry engages with America's ever-changing landscape and the ways in which race, gender, and violence coalesce. Called "powerful, truthful, and sublime" by Cornel West, Gómez's words are a necessary paean to hope and courage in the modern world.

"One loss makes you feel all the other losses, writes Carlos Andrés Gómez in this searing and inquisitive collection. His attentiveness to language and to pain is unflinching. Craft and empathy are inseparable; lyrical pleasures resonate with tenderness and sorrow. The poems pull something usable from // the wreckage of performative masculinity, police brutality, and displacement. And what's usable from misery? Gómez's deft control of language--the syntax is nimble, the diction is zoetic--brings us close to the boundless resilience that helps us survive, change."--Eduardo C. Corral

"Gómez makes an impressive debut in this collection, singing of family, bullets, survival and smoke. This hijito is a tiny growl / at first / that blossomed / into a wail."--Tyehimba Jess, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

"Striking, searching, and serious. Carlos Andrés Gómez poems often leap landscapes beyond the West and ask us to consider the history we have been taught, how we speak it and carry it in our bodies. There is an earned depth and urgency to Gómez as a poet."--Raymond Antrobus, Rathbones Folio Prize winner

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