Promises of Gold

Author: Jose Olivarez Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD '[Promises of Gold] has put Olivarez at the forefront of not only first-generation poetics, but of all poetry. This one here is for us -- the ones who hide garden shears in their poems' Javier Zamora Love is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often mishandled, misrepresented, or narrowly defined. In the words of Jose Olivarez: 'How many bad...Read more