
Book
Promises of Gold
José Olivarez
Henry Holt and Co. · Paperback · February 20, 2024
Reading lane: Hispanic American Poetry
“How many bad lovers have gotten poems?
At a Glance
Why This Clicks
Love, Wider Circles
These poems look beyond romance to the many forms of love—and the forces that complicate it.
Come here for
- Friendship, family, self-love, and cultural love sharing the page
- Poems that hold affection alongside the contradictions of the American Dream
Expect
- A collection concerned with love in all its complications
- An English or Spanish-language way into the poems
Book Details
- Authors
- José Olivarez
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Co.
- Published
- February 20, 2024
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Hispanic American Poetry · Family Poems
- Reading lane
- Hispanic American Poetry
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Publisher Categories
Hispanic American Poetry
Love Poetry
Family Poems
About This Book
“How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic love—but what about our friends? Those homies who are there all along—cheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.” In this groundbreaking collection of poems, José Olivarez explores every kind of love—self, 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...
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