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Góngora on a Motoconcho
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Books&smith
Published: Apr 10 2025
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the powerful and eclectic poetry of Tomás Modesto Galán, the clash of cultures, landscapes, and experiences unfolds in vivid, sometimes surreal imagery. With a career spanning over three decades, his poetry emerges as a bridge between the Dominican Republic and New York, capturing the complexities of identity, migration, and the struggles of urban life. In this essential anthology, which spans a wide array of poetic forms and themes, Galán's voice rings out with the urgency of a submachine gun's shot-sharp, relentless, and full of humanity. From the depths of lyricism to biting social critique, Galán explores the contradictions of life in crisis, blending the influences of surrealism, German expressionism, and Dominican folklore to create a poetry that knows no borders.
This collection offers a comprehensive look at the evolution of a poet whose work is as limitless as the cultures it reflects, drawing on the vivid memories of his homeland and the realities of his adopted city. Whether confronting the idealism of the American dream or dissecting the cultural politics of his native country, Galán's work challenges and transcends literary conventions. His poetry, born from a deep sense of place, speaks to anyone caught between worlds-at once personal, universal, and unapologetically bold.
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