{"product_id":"portraits-as-animal-poems-9780999823965","title":"Portraits as Animal: Poems","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15414631\"\u003eVictoriano Cárdenas\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsday Literary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999823965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0999823965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-POE\"\u003ePoetry\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-POE000000\"\u003eGeneral\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsday Literary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44478022516973,"sku":"9780999823965","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_1f8ce291-f695-4d87-a8a5-5973ab26e4ec.jpg?v=1700708313","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/portraits-as-animal-poems-9780999823965","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}