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The poems' speaker sifts through his past to find the speckles of memory that highlight the pressures to fit the mold of masculinity forged both by the Mexican culture of his father and the American culture he inhabits. The problematic norms of both rip the speaker in two directions as he recounts his father?s severe parenting, as he explores the inability to father a child, as he witnesses human suffering, as he overeats and confronts the effects on his body, and, finally, as he realizes what it means to transcend these expectations. The speaker?s epiphany frees him to reject masculine stereotypes and allows him to see himself simply as a human being. That realization, in turn, enables the speaker to see his father not only as ?father,? ?husband,? and ?man,? but as a citizen of Earth. Through Campos?s bold imagery and accessible language and themes, he memorably adds to the continuing conversation of the effects of cultural expectations on the children of immigrant parents.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780268023775","publication_date":"20150215","publisher":"University of Notre Dame Press","slug":"furious-dusk","subtitle":"Kindle Edition","title":"Furious Dusk"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"POE005070","confidence_band":"high","label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.804,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7573,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Family Poems","score":0.7517,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"POE005070","confidence_band":"high","label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.804,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7573,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"POE023050","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Family Poems","score":0.7517,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"FIC056000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Hispanic & Latino Fiction","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"LIT004050","confidence_band":"high","label":"Hispanic American Lit Crit","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"POE005070","confidence_band":"high","label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Hispanic American Poetry","score":0.804,"slug":"hispanic-american-poetry"},{"label":"Place Poetry","score":0.7573,"slug":"place-poetry"},{"label":"Family Poems","score":0.7517,"slug":"family-poems"}],"reader_fit":["For readers interested in cultural pressures on masculinity","For readers drawn to father-son expectations and forgiveness"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Paul Martínez Pompa"],"book_id":"9780268035181","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780268035181.jpg?v=a3e2e5c6e1570165","score":0.7348,"title":"My Kill Adore Him","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780268035181"},{"authors":["Sheryl Luna"],"book_id":"9780268033743","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780268033743.jpg?v=a9863c62906202c7","score":0.7082,"title":"Pity the Drowned Horses","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780268033743"},{"authors":["Steven Espada Dawson"],"book_id":"9781668081563","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781668081563.jpg?v=daa09f4003c1de6c","score":0.6856,"title":"Late to the Search Party","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781668081563"},{"authors":["José Olivarez"],"book_id":"9781250878472","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781250878472.jpg?v=3012ff909564d301","score":0.6855,"title":"Promises of Gold","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781250878472"},{"authors":["J. 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