Love - or its absence - is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often mishandled and misrepresented. In the words of Jose Olivarez: 'No disrespect to romantic love - but what about our friends?' Written in English and combined with a Spanish translation by poet David Ruano, Promises of Gold explores the many forms love takes and how 'a promise made isn't always a promise kept,' as Olivarez grapples with the contradictions of the American Dream, laying bare the ways in which 'love is complicated by forces larger than our hearts.'Promises of Gold is what happens when you try to write a book of love poems for your homies amid a global pandemic that has laid bare all of the other pandemics that we have been living through our whole lives. Whether readers enter this collection in English or Spanish, these extraordinary poems chart an ongoing practice of healing, a challenge that demands Olivarez shows up for himself, his friends, his family, his community - his loves - every single day.

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