We Borrowed Gentleness
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We Borrowed Gentleness

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We Borrowed Gentleness

About this book

We Borrowed Gentleness 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. The 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. By 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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. A Metaphor
  7. Independence Day in West Texas
  8. Little Words
  9. The Contract
  10. Promise
  11. The Politics of Rivers
  12. Let’s Not Get Carried Away
  13. Theodicy Written in the Occupied Sands
  14. Diáspora
  15. Alternate Ending: Solomon’s Misjudgment
  16. Laredo Duplex
  17. The Offering
  18. Patterns
  19. A Miracle
  20. Elegy in the Absence of Answers
  21. My Uncle’s Killer
  22. Porvenir
  23. The New Regime
  24. The Framework of an Imaginary Nation
  25. Like It Is
  26. Alternate Ending: The Unrecorded Bitterness of Abraham
  27. Knowing Children
  28. Dream of God as a Venture Capitalist
  29. Anti-Ode to the Metaphysical
  30. The Ghosts of My Past Are in Disrepair
  31. Living in the Moment
  32. Alternate Ending: The Invention of Science
  33. Reasons to Despise Being Literary
  34. The Family Endures Magritte’s Revisions of La Chambre d’Écoute
  35. How to Confront the Past
  36. Erik Estrada Defends His Place in the Canon
  37. Intelligent Design
  38. Erosion
  39. -ism
  40. False Cognates
  41. Speaking Ill of the Dead
  42. Elegy with No Tenor
  43. Elongations
  44. The Vestigial
  45. The Untranslatable
  46. The Aphids
  47. Astrophysics
  48. Alternate Ending: The Escape of Jephthah’s Daughter
  49. Meditation on the Last Prayer
  50. The Interval
  51. Pastoral
  52. A Man’s Apology
  53. The Word
  54. Meditation on Beauty
  55. The Burning Field
  56. A Force Equal to the Weight of the Fluid Displaced
  57. The Maker
  58. Alternate Beginning: The Sixth Day
  59. Places with Terrible Wi-Fi
  60. Static
  61. In Praise of Weakness
  62. At Last, Surrender
  63. Acknowledgments
  64. Recent Titles from Alice James Books