{"product_id":"we-borrowed-gentleness-9781948579285","title":"We Borrowed Gentleness","description":"\u003ci\u003eWe Borrowed Gentleness\u003c\/i\u003e interrogates the innateness of pain and forms of destruction--through natural disaster, through God, through family, and through the power structures and patriarchal violence that embeds itself in language and cultural memory. Poems critique and challenge the patriarchal narratives that dominate American history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems leave the question open of whether man, men, a father and son, are redeemable after the surge of rising white nationalism in America. And yet, there are poems that find, still, bits of joy and perhaps a shred of hope.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy juxtaposing poems of louder narrative imagination with quieter poems that explore intimate failings within a family, often portrayed with a realist aesthetic, the book attempts to work through the essential fault in man, in men--in the structures that they design and maintain.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Alice James Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/11\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781948579285\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100","brand":"J. Estanislao Lopez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362434846901,"sku":"9781948579285","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b0a0897e-79fe-4113-a512-0c36a36d4a15.jpg?v=1662435420","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/we-borrowed-gentleness-9781948579285","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}