Portrait of Us Burning: Poems.by Paramo New 9780810146488 Fast Free Shipping**

Northwestern University Press

A powerful debut collection exploring one family\u2019s pursuit of the American Dream Sebasti\u00C1n H. P\u00C1ramo renders a semi-autobiographical collection, utilizing self-portraiture and memory to uncover how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his stepbrother and to his family\u2019s burning desire to become American.\nPortrait of Us Burning begins with the humble picture of an immigrant American family. This picture starts to disintegrate\u2014and, ultimately, burns\u2014with the need to understand an inciting event that haunts the family throughout the second half of the collection. As the poems gather force and the picture dissolves further, P\u00C1ramo asks us again and again: What does it mean to burn while becoming a part of a whole?\n\nPortrait of Us Burning\nPoems\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price advertised i;