Jattin, Raul Gomez
Almost Obscene
- ISBN 13:
- 9781734816761
- author:
- Jattin, Raul Gomez
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Cleveland State University Poetry Center
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2022
- Pages:
- 132
- Dimensions:
- 20 x 14 x 1.2 centimetres (0.25
- Genre:
- Poetry, Caribbean & Latin American, Poetry,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
Raúl Gómez Jattin's debut collection ALMOST OBSCENE brings together poems from his chapbooks written between 1980 and 1997. This English-language edition showcases the unpredictability that made Jattin an uncomfortable presence in mainstream Colombian literary circles, featuring a jagged tone and approach that defies narrow definitions of queer poetics. Through these poems, a marginalized poetic voice is expressed with uninhibited honesty, challenging heteronormative norms and offering a decolonizing queerness. The result is a collection that is both sorrowful and joyful, noisy with emotion under the constellations of Jattin's divergent lines. This book is part manifesto, part self-portrait, assembling a queer companionship of rag doll children, papier-mâché lovers, and poetry itself. ALMOST OBSCENE offers a whole wonderful life, one that is both amazing in its grace and maddening in its complexity. If you let poetry and love into your life, they could do this to you too.
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