Promises of gold = Promesas de oro /
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. Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet Dav...
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New York :
Henry Holt and Company,
[2023].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Tradition
- Folk
- Love poem beginning with a yellow cab
- Wealth
- Ode to tortillas
- Nation of domination
- In the dream
- Bulls vs. Suns, 1993
- Another Cal City poem
- Ojalá : my homie
- Upward mobility
- Regret or my dad says love
- Black & mild
- River Oaks Mall
- Pedro explains magical realism
- Chosen
- Fathers
- An almost sonnet for my mom's almost life
- Poem with corpse flowers & no corpses
- It's only day whatever of the quarantine & I'm already daydreaming about robbing rich people
- Poem with a little less aggression
- Maybach music
- Card declined
- Middle class in this mf
- Canelo Álvarez is the champ
- Bad Mexican sonnet
- Poem where no one is deported
- American tragedy
- Cal City winter
- On the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement
- Ojalá : me & my guys
- Poetry is not therapy
- Before we got comfortable saying love, we dapped
- Ojalá : I hate heartbreak
- Haram
- Healing
- More, please
- Two truths & a lie
- Pedro gets asked about his big brother
- Happening sonnet
- Authenticity
- Loyality
- Poem where I learn to eat escargot
- Some words look nice until you try them on
- Wherever I'm at that land is Chicago
- Nate calls me soft
- Love poem (feat. Chani Nicholas)
- All the names we say because we don't say love
- Cal City love poem
- Most
- Mercedes says she prefers the word "discoteca" to the word "club"
- February & my love is in another state
- Ugly
- Origin story
- In Calumet City
- Now I'm bologna
- My sociology
- No time to wait
- Mercedes says hyacinths look like little firework shows
- Miracle
- Ruben's poem
- Ars poetica
- Eviction notice
- Moonshine
- Llorar
- United enemies
- Harlem snapshot
- FAQ
- Sunday love
- Between us & liberation
- Escargot
- Eating Taco Bell with Mexicans
- Maybe God is Mexican
- It's true
- Despecho hour at The Casa Azul Restaurante y Cantina
- Hopeful Cal City poem
- Mexican heaven ("the mexicans said no thank you to heaven--")
- Perder
- Inspiration
- I walk into the ocean
- Roses & lilies
- Justice is for the living
- Mexican heaven ("forget heaven & its promises of gold--")
- No more sad Mexicans
- Mexican heaven ("when my uncle goes to heaven")
- Another Harlem poem
- Ojalá : self-love
- Down to my elbows
- Rebuttal
- Shelter Island
- Let's get married
- Related : the sky is dope.