Description
In his landmark debut, Carlos AndrEs GOmez interrogates race, gender, sexuality, and violence to explore some of the most pressing issues of our time. These poems address the complexities and nuances of toxic masculinity, assimilation, homophobia, and the joy and anguish of trying to raise Black children in America. GOmez casts an uncompromising eye toward both brutality and tenderness, going where we are most uncomfortable and lingering in moments of introspection that reveal fear, grief, or hatred. Birthed at a breaking point, these poems carve open silence, revealing fissures that welcome the light. Unflinching, poignant, and powerful, Fractures is both a gut punch and a balm.
Reviews
Fractures teaches us the past is always inflecting the present. In poems as charged as they are exquisitely made, GOmez offers us the chance to appreciate searching for the exact day / [he] stopped dreaming in the language / that sings [his] name. But its true gift, its true power, is the way it transforms loss and sadness into something triumphant." - C. Dale Young
"Equal parts vision and prophecy . . . Devastatingly precise, full of aching desire for a complex past and nostalgia for the future yet to come. GOmez is writing with an urgency for the most pressing issues of our time. This is a voice that demands to be heard." - Tina Chang, author of Hybrida
"GOmez writes poems of unswerving conviction that also shine on the page, poems that emerge from the very nucleus of human experience. With compelling honesty and accuracy, he reveals the fissures of the mind and the heart. In articulate and masterfully written poems, he has given us a redemptive vision." - Rodney Jones, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry finalist
"This is a book of repair, as much as fracture, from a writer whose supple and enlightened voice probes as much as it exhilarates." - Will Daunt, Pulsar Poetry Webzine
Book Information
ISBN 9780299329945
Author Carlos Andres Gomez
Format Paperback
Page Count 277
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 170g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 7mm
Reviews
Fractures teaches us the past is always inflecting the present. In poems as charged as they are exquisitely made, GOmez offers us the chance to appreciate searching for the exact day / [he] stopped dreaming in the language / that sings [his] name. But its true gift, its true power, is the way it transforms loss and sadness into something triumphant." - C. Dale Young
"Equal parts vision and prophecy . . . Devastatingly precise, full of aching desire for a complex past and nostalgia for the future yet to come. GOmez is writing with an urgency for the most pressing issues of our time. This is a voice that demands to be heard." - Tina Chang, author of Hybrida
"GOmez writes poems of unswerving conviction that also shine on the page, poems that emerge from the very nucleus of human experience. With compelling honesty and accuracy, he reveals the fissures of the mind and the heart. In articulate and masterfully written poems, he has given us a redemptive vision." - Rodney Jones, Pulitzer Prize in Poetry finalist
"This is a book of repair, as much as fracture, from a writer whose supple and enlightened voice probes as much as it exhilarates." - Will Daunt, Pulsar Poetry Webzine
Book Information
ISBN 9780299329945
Author Carlos Andres Gomez
Format Paperback
Page Count 277
Imprint University of Wisconsin Press
Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
Weight(grams) 170g
Dimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 7mm
