{"product_id":"boomerang-bumern-isbn-9780807033395","title":"Boomerang \/ Bumerán","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bilingual poetry collection from a Cuban-American writer-activist that explores themes of identity, sexuality, and belonging\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA unique and inspiriting bilingual collection of lyrical poetry written in a bold, mostly gender-free English and Spanish that address immigration, displacement, love and activism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is divided into 3 sections: First, poems addressing immigration and displacement; secondly, those addressing love, lost and found, and finally, verses focusing on action, on ways of addressing injustice and repairing the world. The volume will be both inspiration and support for readers living with marginalized identities and those who love and stand with them.\u003ci\u003eAuthor’s Note\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBoomerang, After Aimé Césaire\u003cbr\u003eThe Man in White\u003cbr\u003eVolver\u003cbr\u003eHeroes in Exile\u003cbr\u003eThe President of Coca-Cola\u003cbr\u003eThe Land of Regal Elephants\u003cbr\u003eRecountal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Island Lover\u003cbr\u003eWaiting in Line with Hemingway\u003cbr\u003eInner Core\u003cbr\u003eThe Public Place, After Olga Broumas\u003cbr\u003eConceits\u003cbr\u003eDancing in Paradise\u003cbr\u003eSuccession\u003cbr\u003eThe Man with No Legs\u003cbr\u003eBoomerang\u003cbr\u003eNaiad\u003cbr\u003eThe World as We Know It\u003cbr\u003eSlow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Hospice, After Carolyn Forché\u003cbr\u003eIn Response to the Murder of Eleven Jews, Including a Ninety-Seven-Year-Old Said to Be a Holocaust Survivor, Who Wasn’t\u003cbr\u003eThe Ravages\u003cbr\u003eYou\u003cbr\u003eKol Nidrei\u003cbr\u003eThe March“This is Obejas’s mission, with each poem, each line, each word—to make the world a better place, to let hope live.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Achy Obejas’s \u003ci\u003eBoomerang\u003c\/i\u003e comes hurtling at you, maddening, sharp-edged, in wild, aerodynamic swerve across a ‘jeweled sea, flickering with caution,’ flung past limits of language, tragedy, history, to circle back through Ana Mendieta, José Martí, a synagogue in Pittsburgh . . . . There are far more than two sides to the dualities this work takes aim at with shattering skill.”\u003cbr\u003e—Esther Allen, author of \u003ci\u003eYour New Name\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Achy Obejas launches a boomerang into the future so it can come back with sacred news about the human condition.”\u003cbr\u003e—Rita Indiana, author of \u003ci\u003eTentacle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“These poems ring like bells that toll for all we’ve lost, yet proclaim all we strive to reclaim; they sing like a choir of lyrical harmonies that praise yet lament heritage, sexuality, love, and language; they mesmerize us like meditations that transfix with the promise of ascension.”\u003cbr\u003e—Richard Blanco, author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Love a Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eBoomerang\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling, groundbreaking poetic and bi-linguistic achievement. It is inventively unlike anything I’ve ever read yet invokes the intense familiar: wonderment, heartbreak, pathos, and love.”\u003cbr\u003e—Cristina García, author of \u003ci\u003eHere in Berlin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like her outstanding novels and short stories, Achy Obejas’s \u003ci\u003eBoomerang\u003c\/i\u003e is a revelation of striking language authored anew in both English and Spanish. In this astounding and incantatory book, Obejas takes us on a journey through the ravages of the heart, via childhood, exile, lost loves, and, eventually, return. \u003ci\u003eBoomerang\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound and eloquent book filled with hard-earned beauty, wonder, and, ultimately, joy.”\u003cbr\u003e—Edwidge Danticat, author of \u003ci\u003eEverything Inside\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The much-needed hope that comes with love defines these poems, shapes their lush epiphanies, their celebration of beloveds of all sorts, not just humans but also political convictions and the wide ranging geographies of various cities. These are the poems that we need so much right now as they remind us about the transformative promise that manifests when we brush up against each other and the inclusive, generous world that can come out of those moments.”\u003cbr\u003e—Juliana Spahr, author of \u003ci\u003eWell Then There Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In these poems of ‘love in the time of . . . ,’ Achy Obejas is as consumed by the terrifying sensuality of love and the politics of bodies in intimate dialogue with each other as she is about ‘the time of . . .’ of war, of disenfranchisement, of violence, and of political instability. \u003ci\u003eBoomerang\/Bumerán\u003c\/i\u003e is filled with elegant bilingual meditations that become defiant acts of protest against silencing and against the social and political pressure to deny our desire to feel fully and be deliciously alive in a troubled world.”\u003cbr\u003e—Kwame Dawes, author of \u003ci\u003eNebraska\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eAchy Obejas\u003c\/b\u003e is a Cuban-American writer, translator, and activist whose work focusing on personal and national identity has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFifth Wednesday Journal\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnother Chicago Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and many other publications. A native of Havana, she currently lives in the San Francisco Bay area.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303125536997,"sku":"NP9780807033395","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780807033395.jpg?v=1767722949","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/boomerang-bumern-isbn-9780807033395","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}