{"product_id":"olivarez-jose-promises-of-gold-hb-copy","title":"Olivarez, Jose: Promises of Gold (HB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHolt \u0026amp; Company, Henry, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: February 14, 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: 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, migration, and so on. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often mishandled, misrepresented, or narrowly defined. In the words of José 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, \" \u003ci\u003ePromises of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e explores many forms of love and how \"a promise made isn't always a promise kept,\" as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions of the American Dream laying bare the ways in which \"love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe writes, \"For those of us who are hyphenated Americans, where do we belong? \u003ci\u003ePromises of Gold\u003c\/i\u003e attempts to reckon with colonial legacy and the reality of what those promises have borne out for Mexican descendants. I wrote this book to imagine and document an ongoing practice of healing--healing that requires me to show up for myself, my community, my friends, my family, and my loves every day.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether readers enter this collection in English or Spanish, these extraordinary poems are sure to become beloved for their illuminations of life--and love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44220069019671,"sku":"9781250878496","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/9781250878496.jpg?v=1673736926","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/olivarez-jose-promises-of-gold-hb-copy","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}