{"product_id":"furious-dusk-9780268023775","title":"Furious Dusk","description":"\u003cp\u003eRhina P. Espaillat, judge of the 2014 Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize, describes \u003ci\u003eFurious Dusk\u003c\/i\u003e, David Campos's winning collection, as \"a work whose five parts trace a son's efforts--only partially successful--to fulfill his father's expectations and--perhaps even more difficult--understand those expectations enough to forgive them.\" The poet's reflections are catalyzed by learning of his father's impending death, which, in turn, forces him to examine his father's expectations against his own evolving concept of what it means to be a man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems' speaker sifts through his past to find the speckles of memory that highlight the pressures to fit the mold of masculinity forged both by the Mexican culture of his father and the American culture he inhabits. The problematic norms of both rip the speaker in two directions as he recounts his father's severe parenting, as he explores the inability to father a child, as he witnesses human suffering, as he overeats and confronts the effects on his body, and, finally, as he realizes what it means to transcend these expectations. The speaker's epiphany frees him to reject masculine stereotypes and allows him to see himself simply as a human being. That realization, in turn, enables the speaker to see his father not only as \"father,\" \"husband,\" and \"man,\" but as a citizen of Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough Campos's bold imagery and accessible language and themes, he memorably adds to the continuing conversation of the effects of cultural expectations on the children of immigrant parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Campos lives in Fresno, California, where he teaches English at Fresno City College. His poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Boxcar Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Huizache\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Packinghouse Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Verdad\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eMiramar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eamong other journals and magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51615555846418,"sku":"9780268023775","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_517d3c3f-8a86-495a-a41b-87935f66bb9c.jpg?v=1758102908","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/furious-dusk-9780268023775","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}