{"product_id":"pentimento-9781625570673","title":"Pentimento","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom an Italian word meaning \"to repent,\" a pentimento is an instance in painting when traces of an artist's earlier decisions or mistakes are visible through the final layer(s) of paint. Using modes of confession, ekphrasis, and biblical persona, Pentimento excavates a queerness entangled in one's faith tradition. Whether seeking to understand his relationship to god, friends, or family, Garcia interrogates questions that arise on the path to self-acceptance. In \"Self-Portrait as a Virgin,\" a biblical persona asks, \"How else are we to take words whole \/ in our mouths, except as they are given?\" Concerned with naming, desire, love, and belonging, Pentimento is a response to a kind of annunciation, the almost supernatural calling of the artist to find words through which the self is free to move. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Garcia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.28d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625570673\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoshua Garcia is the author of \u003ci\u003ePentimento\u003c\/i\u003e (Black Lawrence Press 2024). His poetry has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEcotone, The Georgia Review, Passages North, Ploughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. He holds an MFA from the College of Charleston and has received a Stadler Fellowship from Bucknell University and an Emerge-- Surface-- Be Fellowship from The Poetry Project. He lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Joshua Garcia \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48483657908381,"sku":"9781625570673","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_1da9155e-dcc1-4adf-a5cf-58fc00696579.jpg?v=1782288542","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/pentimento-9781625570673","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}