Shores-Arguello Jacob Shores-Arguello

Paraiso (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Winner, 2017 CantoMundo Poetry PrizeParaiso, the first book in the new CantoMundo Poetry Series, which celebrates the work of Latino/a poets writing in English, is a pilgrimage against sorrow. Erupting from a mother s death, the poems follow the speaker as he tries to survive his grief. Catholicism, family, good rum . . . these help, but the real medicine happens when the speaker pushes into the cloud forest alone.In a Costa Rica far away from touristy beaches, we encounter bus trips over the cold mountains of the dead, drug dealers with beautiful dogs, and witches with cell phones. Science fuses with religion, witchcraft is joined with technology, and eventually grief transforms into belief.Throughout, Paraiso defies categorization, mixing its beautiful sonnets with playful games and magic cures for the reader. In the process, moments of pure life mingle with the aftermath of a death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 60
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610756204
• Artikelnr.: 53206812

Autorenporträt

Jacob Shores-Argüello is a Costa Rican American writer. He is the author of In the Absence of Clocks and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, the Dzanc Books ILP International Literature Award, the Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship, and the Amy Clampitt residency in Lenox, Massachusetts. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, and Guernica.