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Still

Renzo Del Castillo
4.59/5 (12 ratings)
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This collection of poems focuses on the immigrant experience: a family's journey from Lima, Peru to Miami, Florida as political refugees and asylum seekers and the impact that had on a boy as he grew into a man. These poems include reflections on memory and transition, as well as adaptation to new cultures and geographies, through an ethnographic lens. They also capture the idiosyncrasies of the Miami landscape as a destination for Latin American and Caribbean migrations that intersect with an evolving definition of American identity.

Renzo Del Castillo’s poems often reveal larger moral concerns, touching in their language the world of politics and betrayal that cannot help but impose upon the world of private language. That heritage of terror and exile that sometimes underlies these poems gives them a sense of history within the lyric confusions of a single life. There is a lovely and intimate tone here, used throughout the work with good effect through splendid lines—enough to remind the reader that imagination triumphs over adversity, or sometimes through adversity. Still is his first collection of poetry, and if these poems suffer from a particular vice, it’s earnestness, perhaps, or the twinge of sentiment; yet these are just the excesses of expression... Better to push emotion too far—and bring it under control—than to never express it all.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
160 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Indie Earth Publishing
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
9798988037989
kindle Asin:
B0CV61BHPJ

Still

Renzo Del Castillo
4.59/5 (12 ratings)
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This collection of poems focuses on the immigrant experience: a family's journey from Lima, Peru to Miami, Florida as political refugees and asylum seekers and the impact that had on a boy as he grew into a man. These poems include reflections on memory and transition, as well as adaptation to new cultures and geographies, through an ethnographic lens. They also capture the idiosyncrasies of the Miami landscape as a destination for Latin American and Caribbean migrations that intersect with an evolving definition of American identity.

Renzo Del Castillo’s poems often reveal larger moral concerns, touching in their language the world of politics and betrayal that cannot help but impose upon the world of private language. That heritage of terror and exile that sometimes underlies these poems gives them a sense of history within the lyric confusions of a single life. There is a lovely and intimate tone here, used throughout the work with good effect through splendid lines—enough to remind the reader that imagination triumphs over adversity, or sometimes through adversity. Still is his first collection of poetry, and if these poems suffer from a particular vice, it’s earnestness, perhaps, or the twinge of sentiment; yet these are just the excesses of expression... Better to push emotion too far—and bring it under control—than to never express it all.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
160 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Indie Earth Publishing
Edition:
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
ISBN13:
9798988037989
kindle Asin:
B0CV61BHPJ

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