{"product_id":"9781597098991-rattlesnake-allegory","title":"Jimenez Joe - Rattlesnake Allegory - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: These poems are about the moment inside the body \/ when joy is not born as much as it is made out of anything \/ the rest of the world doesn t want. Using land and South Texas's flora and fauna as references these poems explore aloneness and manhood as articulations of want asking the reader to take a moan by the hand see what good it does. Thematically these poems address loss after transformative experiences admitting to a reader All night I might fathom taking back \/ something precious \/ that somehow \/ long ago or not so long ago I don t know \/ ripped off \/ yanked from bone \/ sloughed off like a husk. These poems are about getting to know one's body after being distanced from it of recognizing a queer brown body inextricably belonging to lineages of loss and then realizing that some new body has emerged from where the old parts were lost or taken as in the final sequence of four poems Lechuza Sketches where the speaker manifests the Tex - Mexican folkloric figure of a lechuza the human - owl hybrid said to inhabit parts of South Texas and the Northern Mexican border. In the end this is a collection of poems about more deeply engaging with one's queerness one's brownness and understanding that there are parts inside us we never knew existed or as the Lechuza Sketches speaker offers In the world some part of us is often \/ unseen \/ \u0026amp; not glorious. \/ But what if we are? \/ Glorious. Seen.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: Rattlesnake Allegory\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Jimenez Joe\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Red Hen Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781597098991\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 80 Pages, Illustrations, Unspecified\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 5\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Poetry","brand":"Jimenez Joe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49620811415857,"sku":"IN-G-9781597098991","price":15.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781597098991.jpg?v=1724696785","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781597098991-rattlesnake-allegory","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}