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Prometeo

Prometeo

Young, C. Dale

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ISBN10: 1945588705
ISBN13: 9781945588709
Publisher: Four Way Books
Published: Feb 15 2021
Pages: 76
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
An unflinching reckoning with the traumas of one's life and those inherited through a history of exacted injustices

Some men find nothing, and others / find omens everywhere, writes C. Dale Young in Prometeo, a collection whose speaker is a proverbial child of fire. In poems that thrive off of their distinct voice, the speaker confronts generational and lived trauma and their relationship to his multi-ethnicity. We are presented with the idea of the past's burial in the body and its constellatory manifestations--both in the speaker and those around him--in disease and pain, but also in strength and a capacity for intimacy with others and nature. Grounded in precise language, Young's examination of the past and its injuries turns into a celebration of the self. In stark, exuberant relief, the speaker proclaims ...I was splendidly blended, genetically engineered / for survival. Resilient, Young's poems find beauty in landscape, science, and meditation.

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