Fable Of An Inconsolable Man

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Poverty Studies. Urban Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Jesse Lee Kercheval. "IN FABLE OF AN INCONSOLABLE MAN, Uruguayan poet Javier Etchevarren combines clear-eyed realism with a survivor's imaginative streak to take on the poverty and violence threaded through his own childhood in Montevideo. 'When one is honest, the world is a miser, ' he writes. And despite his commitment to unblemished toughness, still, there are moments of transformation and grace in here when a mother grows extra arms to save her children, a boy becomes a beloved dead dog, and a child comes to know the world by reading wondrous encyclopedias in the library his mother cleans. Etchevarren's poems are vibrant psalms of perseverance and grit." -- Erika Meitner "In these] poems, I feel my own struggles toward adulthood and the loneliness of such a road. Reading these emotionally deft and beautiful poems make me feel less alone." -- Nate Marshall 9780900575952 0900575956 0 BOOK NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=bklLMQAACAAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Javier Etchevarren
• | Publisher: Action Books
• | Publication Date: Feb 15, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 106 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0900575956
• | ISBN-13: 9780900575952