The Life Assignment
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The Life Assignment

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The Life Assignment

About this book

The speaker of the poems in The Life Assignment is reviewing his history. As if sorting through a box of photographs, the speaker sorts through relationships, trying to discern what was healthy from what was exploitative. Concepts of love are turned over and over in these poems: romantic love, love of family, love of country, self-love (or lack thereof). Often the speaker finds that what at first appeared to be caring, was insincere all along. When tenderness is in short supply, how can one protect himself? How can one find home? In his debut collection, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado bends poems through bilingual lyrics that present spartan observation as evidence for its exacting verdict: "We never leave when life is elsewhere. The clemency of men disappears / as does the light, tarring the roofs." An electric debut collection.

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Information

Publisher
Four Way Books
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781945588549
eBook ISBN
9781945588778
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. I Give You My Heart Os doy mi corazón
  6. Layaway
  7. Poorly Given Miserias
  8. Exit, with the Body
  9. In Defense of the Life Assignment En defensa de la vida asignada
  10. A Few Things Are Explained to Me Me explican algunas cosas
  11. Self-Criticism as an Act of Love Autogestión como acto de amor
  12. Mi mamá me ama
  13. Envoi
  14. Love Poem
  15. Legislation with Regard to Life
  16. Heterosexuality as Custom
  17. Leftovers
  18. The Rent
  19. I, Ricardo, Detached from the Human Ricardo Yo, Ricardo, separándome del humano Ricardo
  20. For Love
  21. Dinner Special
  22. One Fish, Two Fish, Three Fish Un, dos, tres pescados
  23. Someone Else’s Television
  24. The City
  25. His Life in Foreclosure
  26. TI-83
  27. Habemus Lux
  28. Set Up Request
  29. A Mistranslation of My Name Sobre la traducción de mi nombre
  30. A Bird for Felipe, a Bird for Damián Un pájaro para Felipe, un pájaro para Damián
  31. The Commodities Market El mercado de materia prima
  32. Morning is Morning
  33. Project for the Hands
  34. Modern Guilt
  35. When We Were Mortal
  36. Logarithms for Tinderbox
  37. Aquatics Period
  38. Youth Novels
  39. Early Rhetoric and Composition
  40. Lesionado
  41. Regarding the Life Assignment En cuanto a la vida asignada
  42. Voyage to Russia
  43. Confessional
  44. Bounty
  45. Natural History
  46. The Symbolism Practice Test
  47. Where We Are. Sometimes
  48. Last Advertisement for the Life Assignment Último anuncio de la vida asignada
  49. Status for the Rest of the Month
  50. A Poem for Raquel Un poema para Raquel
  51. Entry Level
  52. The End of the Economy
  53. God or Freud
  54. America! America! Las dos Américas
  55. Vita Nuova
  56. Notes
  57. Acknowledgments
  58. About the Author