A01=Sebastian H Paramo
American poetry
Author_Sebastian H Paramo
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family
Frida Khalo
Half-siblings
identity
immigrant
immigration
inherited trauma
intergenerational trauma
Latinx
memory
Mexican American
poems
poetry
Rufino Tamayo
self-portrait
siblings
Texan
Texas
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Product details
- ISBN 9780810146488
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2023
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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?
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?
SebastieÁn H. PÁramo has published poems in the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-A-Day, New England Review, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere. He is the founding editor of The Boiler and serves as poetry editor for Deep Vellum. He lives in Texas.
