Why Can''t It Be Tenderness

Charting a journey through schoolyards and laundromats, suburban gardens and rice paddies, yoga studios and rural highways, Michelle Brittan Rosado crafts poems that blend elegy and praise. In settings from California to Malaysian Borneo, she explores themes of coming-of-age, mixed-race identity, diaspora, and cultural inheritance.

Summary

Charting a journey through schoolyards and laundromats, suburban gardens and rice paddies, yoga studios and rural highways, Michelle Brittan Rosado crafts poems that blend elegy and praise. In settings from California to Malaysian Borneo, she explores themes of coming-of-age, mixed-race identity, diaspora, and cultural inheritance.

Product details

• Authors: Michelle Brittan Rosado
• Publisher: The University of Wisconsin Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9780299319946
• ISBN: 978-0-299-31994-6
• No. of pages: 104
• Series: Wisconsin Poetry; Wisconsin Poetry Series; Wisconsin Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama