Las manos de mi madre: (My mother's hands)

By Jael Uribe

This book is Jael Uribe's voice at its most honest and human. (Bilingual Edition).(Includes the winning poem of the 2017 Vicente Rodr guez-Nietzsche Prize from the Puerto Rico International Poetry Festival).
There are books that come from a war that no one names. "My mother's hands" does not seek to offer easy comfort, but the honesty of looking directly at the open wound that made us more human and less gullible. This poetry book is the voice of Jael Uribe in its rawest and most human form.

We grew up looking at affection out of the corner of our eyes, expecting the blow behind every embrace. We learned to read silence before words and to call strength what was, in reality, pure survival. In these pages, Jael Uribe gathers poems about mothers and children, about the love that sometimes hurts more than it consoles, and about the battles carried inside without anyone seeing them.

These are verses written from rage and tenderness, a reflection of everything that remains when something that was supposed to be unbreakable is broken. An invitation to recognize your own wound to, perhaps, begin to understand it.

----------------La voz m s cruda y m s humana de Jael Uribe (Edici n Biling e). (Incluye el poema ganador del Concurso Vicente Rodr guez-Nietzsche del Festival Internacional de Poes a de Puerto Rico 2017).
Hay libros que vienen de una guerra que nadie nombra. "Las manos de mi madre" no busca ofrecer un consuelo f cil, sino la honestidad de mirar de frente la herida abierta que nos hizo personas m s humanas y menos cr dulas. Este libro, es la voz de Jael Uribe en su forma m s cruda y m s humana.

Crecimos mirando de reojo el cari o, esperando el golpe detr s de cada abrazo. Aprendimos a leer el silencio antes que las palabras y a llamar fortaleza a lo que, en realidad, era pura supervivencia. En estas p ginas, Jael Uribe re ne poemas sobre madres e hijos, sobre el amor que a veces hiere m s de lo que consuela y sobre las batallas que se cargan por dentro sin que nadie las vea.

Son versos escritos desde la rabia y la ternura, un reflejo de todo lo que queda cuando se rompe algo que se supon a era irrompible. Una invitaci n a reconocer la herida propia para, quiz s, empezar a entenderla.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 994594326X
• ISBN13: 9789945943269
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Rosado Fucsia
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"