Promises of Gold Olivarez Jos
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,…
Specifikacia Promises of Gold Olivarez Jos
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, and so on. But even though the path to love is not easy, it is a path worth treading.Love--or its absence--is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often mishandled and misrepresented. In the words of Jos Olivarez: "How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love--but what about our friends? Those homies who show up when the romance ends to help you heal your heart. Those homies who are there all along--cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant. I dreamed of writing a book of love poems for the homies. "Promises of Gold is what happens when you try to write a book of love poems for the