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Author:

Saenz, Jacob, author.

Title:

Throwing the crown / Jacob Saenz ; [introduction by Gregory Pardlo].

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

The American Poetry Review,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xi, 79 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Poetry.
Young men--Poetry.
Neighborhoods--Poetry.
Self-actualization (Psychology)--Poetry.
Families--Poetry.
Friendship--Poetry.
Hispanic Americans--Poetry.

Other Authors:

Pardlo, Gregory, writer of introduction.

Contents:

III. Evolution of my block. Evolution of my skin -- Cops & robbers -- Chula -- Demon -- Mad about cows -- Sonnet of the dead -- The lot as baseball field -- Bait -- Shootaround -- Showering -- The macho -- This never happened -- The lot as boxing ring -- GTA: San Andreas/Berwyn (or "Grove Street, bitch!") -- Latin immortal gangstas -- II. The bachelor attends a wedding -- The bachelor makes dinner -- The bachelor takes out the trash -- The bachelor attends another wedding -- The bachelor screws in a light bulb -- The bachelor watches The bachelor -- The bachelor attends a gay wedding -- The bachelor eats Cheetos, ponders love on a rooftop -- The bachelor looks up the etymology of bachelor -- The bachelor visits his mother -- III. Holding court -- Lalo rots -- Evolution of My profile -- Lotería -- Forged -- Traviesos -- Gang of the dead -- Doing your dead father's dishes -- Blue prick -- Antisonnet -- Bookmark found in The works of Walt Whitman -- A case of MGDs -- Sweeping the states -- Poem for the grandmother -- Poem for the mother -- Evolution of my block.

Summary:

Winner of the prestigious Honickman First Book Award from the American Poetry Review, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Gregory Pardlo, Throwing the Crown describes a boyhood on the edge. Set in a Chicago neighborhood dominated by gang life, Saenz sets the sweetness and vulnerability of youth against the cold reality of a gun pressed against a forehead. Full of accelerative sound--tight rhymes and short, percussive lines--these poems follow a fast-paced trajectory from danger to survival, pausing to acknowledge the beauty and humor in the details along the way.

ISBN:

0983300860
9780983300861
9780983300878
0983300879

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1022788075

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)