{"product_id":"nimrods-9781478020202","title":"Nimrods","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNimrods\u003c\/i\u003e, Kawika Guillermo chronicles the agonizing absurdities of being a newly minted professor (and overtired father) hired to teach in a Social Justice Institute while haunted by the inner ghosts of patriarchy, racial pessimism, and imperial arrogance. Charged with the “personal is political” mandate of feminist critique, Guillermo honestly and powerfully recounts his wayward path, from being raised by two preachers’ kids in a chaotic mixed-race family to his uncle’s death from HIV-related illness, which helped prompt his parents'' divorce and his mother’s move to Las Vegas, to his many attempts to flee from American gender, racial, and religious norms by immigrating to South Korea, China, Hong Kong, and Canada. Through an often crass, cringey, and raw hybrid prose-poetic style, Guillermo reflects on anger, alcoholism, and suicidal ideation—traits that do not simply vanish after one is cast into the treacherous role of fatherhood or the \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Punchy prose alternating with incantatory poems, and sometimes melding into a haibun, Kawika Guillermo’s \u003ci\u003eNimrods \u003c\/i\u003emagnifies perspectives on the father-son relationship and mixed race and ups the bar for the memoir genre. Irreverent, edgy, and—the only kind worth reading—brutally honest.” -- R. Zamora Linmark, author of * The Importance of Being Wilde at Heart *\u003cbr\u003e“Lucid about the contradictions, \u003ci\u003eNimrods\u003c\/i\u003e is incandescent in its rage, grief, and beauty. This is the poetry-story-theory we need to survive our battered and entangled inheritances and find our way into another time, unsettled but livable.” -- Larissa Lai, author of * Iron Goddess of Mercy *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this raw mix of poetry and prose, Guillermo chronicles his early life and experiences in academia as a bisexual, mixed-race man.  . . . An affecting, unmistakable narrative: one in which Guillermo catalogs his difficulties, considers their effects, . . . and learns to find hope anyway. Though not for the faint of heart, this chaotic, fascinating self-portrait lingers.\" * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\"With stylistic techniques ranging from biblical verse to punk lyric, Guillermo paints an empathetic, yet resentful picture.” -- Julian Forst * The Ubyssey *\u003cbr\u003e\"As the story of one man’s life, \u003ci\u003eNimrods\u003c\/i\u003e is worthwhile due to its unconventional approach as well as Guillermo’s honesty, creativity, emotional maturity, and overall skill as a writer. As something even bigger, it is an effective meditation on the power of perseverance and the possibility of reconciliation between the people we once knew and the people that we are now.\" -- Logan Macnair * The British Columbia Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"A dizzying blend of 'auto theory, queer punk poetry, musical ekphrasis, haibun,' and believe it or not, 'bad Dad jokes,' it is never boring\" -- Gregg Shapiro * Out South Florida *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Vocation  1\u003cbr\u003e Strophe: Ode to Patriarchy\u003cbr\u003e Nice Guys Read This Last  5\u003cbr\u003e Get In the Car  15\u003cbr\u003e OMG I'm Turning White Like My Dad  25\u003cbr\u003e Repugnant  35\u003cbr\u003e Scat  45\u003cbr\u003e Doing Time  55\u003cbr\u003e Dead Ends  65\u003cbr\u003e I Hope You  85\u003cbr\u003e Antistrophe: Holy Hai Bun\u003cbr\u003e Suicide's Last Call  89\u003cbr\u003e The Last Ride  100\u003cbr\u003e Binge  114\u003cbr\u003e All Our Yellow Fevers  126\u003cbr\u003e A Psalm of My Mother, Who, After Five Years Divorced, Returns to Portland  141\u003cbr\u003e To Hell and Back to Hell Again  148\u003cbr\u003e Long Gone Daddy  161\u003cbr\u003e Epode: Three \/ Cord \\ Digression\u003cbr\u003e Sissy \/ Sister \\ Cis  181\u003cbr\u003e Re \/ Con \\ Sile  193\u003cbr\u003e Me \/ More \\ Ire  205\u003cbr\u003e Envoi  219\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  225","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409013285207,"sku":"9781478020202","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478020202.jpg?v=1730505092","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nimrods-9781478020202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}