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A powerful debut collection exploring one family’s pursuit of the American Dream

SebastiÁn H. PÁramo renders a semi-autobiographical collection, utilizing self-portraiture and memory to uncover how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his stepbrother and to his family’s burning desire to become American.

Portrait of Us Burning begins with the humble picture of an immigrant American family. This picture starts to disintegrate—and, ultimately, burns—with the need to understand an inciting event that haunts the family throughout the second half of the collection. As the poems gather force and the picture dissolves further, PÁramo asks us again and again: What does it mean to burn while becoming a part of a whole?

Portrait of Us Burning: Poems

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A powerful debut collection exploring one family’s pursuit of the American Dream SebastiÁn H. PÁramo renders a semi-autobiographical collection, utilizing... Read more

    Publisher: Northwestern University Press
    Publication Date: 31/10/2023
    ISBN13: 9780810146488, 978-0810146488
    ISBN10: 0810146487

    Number of Pages: 112

    Fiction , Poetry

    Description

    A powerful debut collection exploring one family’s pursuit of the American Dream

    SebastiÁn H. PÁramo renders a semi-autobiographical collection, utilizing self-portraiture and memory to uncover how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his stepbrother and to his family’s burning desire to become American.

    Portrait of Us Burning begins with the humble picture of an immigrant American family. This picture starts to disintegrate—and, ultimately, burns—with the need to understand an inciting event that haunts the family throughout the second half of the collection. As the poems gather force and the picture dissolves further, PÁramo asks us again and again: What does it mean to burn while becoming a part of a whole?

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