Toys Made of Rock (Canto Cosas) - Softcover

González, José B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193974315X ISBN 13: 9781939743152

Publisher: Bilingual Pr, 2015

Synopsis

"This volume is a first collection of poems by Salvadoran-born poet, anthologist, and award-winning teacher Josâe B. Gonzâalez. The poems deal with the immigrant experience and issues of identity, resilience, survival, and achievement" --

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Review

The poems in Toys Made of Rock pair experiments in form with explorations in identity. The lyric result of this offers inroads into the wide landscape of America. Gonzalez brings us izote flowers and caskets, tumor fruit and the minimum wage, voices from the neighborhood and portraits of love. It is a wide-ranging journey from one country to another, from lost childhoods and hard childhoods to the politically charged world of adulthood. Gonzalez is a storyteller and truth teller, a writer who sees that which must be written, must be sung, must be witnessed. The landscape of war is not always compromised of tanks and helicopters. Sometimes it looks like a neighborhood in America. --Brian Turner, author of Here, Bullet

Edition details

• Publisher: Bilingual Pr
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 193974315X
• ISBN 13: 9781939743152
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 88