Why Can't It Be Tenderness
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- ISBN 9780299319946
- Weight: 160g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Oct 2018
- Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Charting 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, and the wide Pacific between them, she explores themes of coming-of-age, mixed-race identity, diaspora, and cultural inheritance. With empathy for the generations past, she questions how we might navigate our history to find a way through it, still holding on to the ones we love. Like an ocean wave, these poems recede and return, with gratitude for the quotidian and for beauty found even in fragments.
bring me back
to the in-between
where my breath
has always lived,
without containment,
like two legs pointing
toward the ocean, or these arms
reaching into sky
—excerpt from ""Ode to the Double 'L'"" Michelle Brittan Rosado. All rights reserved.
bring me back
to the in-between
where my breath
has always lived,
without containment,
like two legs pointing
toward the ocean, or these arms
reaching into sky
—excerpt from ""Ode to the Double 'L'"" Michelle Brittan Rosado. All rights reserved.
Michelle Brittan Rosado is the author of the poetry collection Theory on Falling into a Reef. She is pursuing her doctorate in creative writing and literature at the University of Southern California.
