Created during the pandemic, _joseolivarez second poetry collection, Promises of Gold, gifts readers a promise of hope. | ✍️ Luz Magdaleno Flores
i should apologize—those basement partiesthey only hugged when they sang—they only cried when they hugged—The reader is transported into a nostalgic place that smells of tortillas made by a woman who is tired from working at the warehouse but still comes home to cook, where one hears the Bulls game with a grito of disapproval from the man in the house who is also so tired, where a brother or primo is making a bad joke outside while smoking a J and wearing them too: a Mexican household in...
I am also crying because I, like so many transplants, have migrated far far away from my fam. Choosing to leave them behind for the sake of my art and to find trabajo, just like they did when they left Mexico for Estados Unidos. Latinx migrants cultivate a new belonging in cities like Los Angeles, Houston, Lorain, New York City, and Chicago. There is something so special about finding your people in lands far away from them.
Olivarez includes two, one of which is a well-known quote from a Vicente Fernández song, “Yo sé perder/Yo sé perder,” a great epigraph that sets the mood for his second collection of poetry.or from basement bars—Despite the pain we encounter in loving and losing, Olivarez gifts us with a promise of hope disguised in gold. He is handing us a mirror and inviting us to remember who we are, who is holding it down for us, and where we come from, no matter where we choose to be.
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