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Holt Paperbacks, paperback

Publication Date: February 20, 2024

Publisher Marketing: “How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic lovebut what about our friends ? Those homies who are there all alongcheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.” In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Jos Olivarez explores every kind of loveself, 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 by forces larger than our hearts.” Whether readers enter this collection in English or via the Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, these extraordinary poems are sure to become beloved for their illuminations of lifeand love. “Cuntas malas parejas han inspirado poemas? Cuntos crush es? Sin faltarle el respeto al amor romnticopero qu hay de los amigos? Esos compas que estn ah todo el tiempoanimndonos y recordndonos que elamor es abundante”. En esta innovadora coleccin de poemas, Jos Olivarez explora cada tipo de amorel propio, fraternal, romntico, familiar, cultural. Lidiando con las contradicciones del sueo americano, con una humanidad inquebrantable, deja al descubierto las maneras en que “el amor se va complicando por fuerzas ms grandes que nuestros corazones”. Ya sea que los lectores entren a esta coleccin en ingls o a partir de la traduccin al espaol del poeta David Ruano, estos extraordinarios poemas sern amados seguramente por sus iluminaciones sobre el amor y la vida.