{"product_id":"why-cant-it-be-tenderness-9780299319946","title":"Why Cant It Be Tenderness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCharting a journey through schoolyards and laundromats, suburban gardens and rice paddies, yoga studios and rural highways, Michelle Brittan Rosado crafts poems that blend elegy and praise. In settings from California to Malaysian Borneo, she explores themes of coming-of-age, mixed-race identity, diaspora, and cultural inheritance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStrikes just the right, clear note to place in the register of memorable debuts. Rosado's terrific new poems are salve and honey, even when the subjects of breaking and coming apart are at their beautiful core. Listen to the brilliant music of these pages.\"\" - Aimee Nezhukumatathil, contest judge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"Exhilarating, tactile poems- embodied, rich and full. Michelle Brittan Rosado is a visionary architect building and following interior maps within intricate landscapes, creating luminous revelation and deep calm. A book like this gives you your life back.\"\" - Naomi Shihab Nye, author of \u003ci\u003eVoices in the Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"The sense of a divided homeland- California and Malaysia- first splits then doubles the impassioned focus of these precisely crafted, complexly braided meditations on the self and family inheritance. Psychologically searing and yet always resonant with the world's pleasures, these poems unfold as an album of belated and tender homecomings.\"\" - David St. John, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Troubadour: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\"An intimate book that draws the world inside its discoveries, both ordinary and extraordinary. Each poem offers us miracles by which we persist beyond the surface of language itself. Luminous in craft and intelligence, here is an original voice that questions, and ultimately celebrates, the profound wonder of our survival.\"\" - Rachel Eliza Griffiths, author of \u003ci\u003eLighting the Shadow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOde to the Double “L”\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eI\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWestern History\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePastoral with Restless Searchlight\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to Use Microsoft Paint to Alter a Birth Certificate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOnly Child\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAmbivalence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDementia\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcross the Street from Foxboro Elementary School, an Inmate Escapes California State Prison Solano\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVanishing Ship\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Elements Have Learned to Speak\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTheory on Falling into a Reef\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCustoms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBetween\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem for My Twin\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOur Bodies Were Once the Color of Our Masks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Hotel Eden\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAsking about My First Name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDebt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem for My Mother\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRootless\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Father’s Work\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sky Will Look White\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePantun\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePoem for My Maternal Grandfather\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRitual\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePhotograph Taken by My Paternal Grandmother on Her Honeymoon, 1944\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eElegy without Translation\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMy Dead Live in Two Rooms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eII\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Dissolution Paperwork Asks if I Need to Restore My Name\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLate Summer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSea Shanty for the Divorced\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Numerology of Us\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOld Knives\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Tower District\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis Poem Wants to Be a House\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFresno Laundromat without Air-Conditioning in Late July\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContemporary Artifacts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePortrait of His Ex-Lover at a Yoga Studio, Downtown Fresno\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIncident between Two Exits\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhy Can’t It Be Tenderness\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Sweetest Exile Is the One You Choose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Name Made of Asterisks\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMistaken Ode\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLove after Dentistry\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOn Waking When You’re Already Leaving\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhile You Are Gone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn anchor in the shape of an ampersand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eVisitations with Unmarried Self\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGlaucoma Test in the Post-Racial Era\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBreaking a Sugar Bowl the Morning after a Lunar Eclipse\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLullaby in Which It Becomes Impossible Not to Talk about Race\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036917203287,"sku":"9780299319946","price":13.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/why-cant-it-be-tenderness-9780299319946","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}