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These quiet, descriptive poems blaze with an inferno of lamenting and loving muses as a son helplessly watches his father suffer from a debilitating illness. The inquisitive voice of the speaker gently paints an emotional landscape ranging from childhood to the present, while trying to find glimpses of happiness in the imminent sorrow.
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"This brilliant book tells a hell-forged truth with angelic music, making devastating beauty from the elemental and agonized relation between father and son-at once a war and a loss and a tether, a home. Through the cruel truth there is love; even in the deepest pit there's light. This nocturnal-hearted poet's not likely looking for it but there it is, still falling all over his burning, metallic,
Brenda Shaughnessy
"Confessionalism doesn't have to be narcissistic: the lyric self can be an aperture. Cerpa's lush debut enacts just such a vantage: the speaking self, always present, defers to the sometimes terrible splendors of a world it can never understand but only participate in. Cerpa's governing register is Rilke by way of Staten Island. These are poems of rich participation, imbued not with worldliness bu
G.C. Waldrep, author of Feast Gently
"The poetry of Andrés Cerpa gives startling dimension to the most profound experiences of human sadness; his words come from the ache of longing for what has been taken away or denied by loss and love. A remarkable and poignant debut that illuminates the dark rooms we all inhabit in our search for solace, beauty, or saving grace."
Rigoberto González