Patrilineation

Bilingual (English/Spanish) edition. Winner of the Alta California Chapbook Prize, selected by Raina León. "From the first poem in Patrilineation, the stakes are high. The author invites us into an early memory, rooted in a tender and fragile part of the body, through a lens of loss: the eyelashes of a child. In these poems, we confront a truth: we live and breathe and move always vulnerable, always at the edge of or in the process of losing. How do we name our lineages, what we have inherited, and transmute the strength that comes from pain into a strength that, itself, multiples the transformational possibilities of love to others and the self? How do we name the political hypocrisies-all men are created equal-while knowing the threats all around you and holding your child, in all his beauty, in your arms? These poems engage questions, guide us into reflection, and agitate us towards action, change, and love."

-Raina León

Final Judge, Alta California Prize

About the Poet

Carlos Andrés Gómez is a Colombian American poet from New York City. His poetry collection Fractures (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) was selected by Pulitzer Prize winner and 19th U.S. Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey as the winner of the 2020 Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. Winner of the Foreword INDIES Gold Medal and the International Book Award, Gómez has been published in The Nation, New England Review, Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day series, The Yale Review, The Sunday Times, Poetry Unbound: 50 Poems to Open Your World (W. W. Norton, 2022), and elsewhere. Carlos is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. For more: CarlosLive.com

About the Translations

Translations by Alexandra Lytton Regalado, with Spanish style editing by Josué Andrés Moz and series editor Emma Trelles.

Traducciones de Alexandra Lytton Regalado, con corrección de estilo en español de Josué Andrés Moz y editora de la serie Emma Trelles.