{"product_id":"antes-que-isla-es-volc-n-before-island-is-volcano-9780807014578","title":"antes que isla es volcán \/ before island is volcano","description":"\u003cb\u003eGold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty, and hope\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRaquel Salas Rivera’s star has risen swiftly in the poetry world, and this, his 6th book, promises to cement his status as one of the most important poets working today. In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, \u003ci\u003eantes que isla es volcán\u003c\/i\u003e daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSalas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity: one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico’s fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engaging with literary and political theory, yet are also hard-hitting, charismatic, and quotable (“won’t you be sorry? \/ won’t you wish you had a boss? \/ won’t you get restless \/ with all that freedom?”).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems tap unflinchingly into the explosive energy of the island, transforming it into protest, into spirit, into art.","brand":"Beacon Press","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":58149873058179,"sku":"9780807014578","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780807014578.jpg?v=1780057206","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/antes-que-isla-es-volc-n-before-island-is-volcano-9780807014578","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}