Dulce: Poems

by Marcelo Hernández Castillo, Matthew Shenoda, Mr. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

The poems in Dulce are at once confession and elegy that admit the speaker's attempt and possible failure to reconcile intimacy toward another and toward the self. The collection asks: what's the point in any of this?--meaning, what's the use of longing beyond pleasure; what's the use of looking for an origin if we already know the ending?

Surreal and deeply imagistic, the poems map a parallel between the landscape of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810136961
• ISBN13: 9780810136960
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.9" x 6.8"