{"product_id":"portraits-as-animal-poems-paperback","title":"Portraits as Animal: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictoriano Cárdenas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePortraits as Animal\u003c\/em\u003e is a gallery of self-becoming in a \"sunbaked house as tiny as a heart.\" With a toothy lyricism at turns sly and forthright, Cárdenas's hunger to belong carries us from a stove \"bleeding a hundred kinds of caldo\" to his \"determined mitochondrial ancestors''-a journey framed by generational struggles with addiction, a queerphobic church, and the always-transforming land. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn conversation with Taos's rich artistic tradition and the brutal, binding legacy of colonization, Cárdenas writes through his transition, acknowledging that \"to become a man means a lifetime of needles like the man who raised me.\" Here is pain and violence, but here, too, is the assurance that we are \"built for this metamorphosis\" and can follow our past incarnations \"over scorched earth neon with new grass\" to a future of our own making.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 84\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.2 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42110100865104,"sku":"9780999823965","price":26.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/9540\/0016\/files\/ZDN4WkdMQ1JmU2dKTGFnR2tKS0tGQT09.webp?v=1772509840","url":"https:\/\/palm-malen-gift-shop-pmrc.myshopify.com\/products\/portraits-as-animal-poems-paperback","provider":"Palm Malen Gift Shop -PMRC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}