Promises of Gold -- José Olivarez, Hardcover Julie Alter American tourists David (David Naughton)

American tourists David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors

and her hyperactive new best friend and classmate Miyako

Track: 3 - Lord of the Sad and Lonely

Track: 5 - Why Don't We Live Together

but wounds of trauma run deep and threaten their love as another casualty of war

Promises of Gold -- José Olivarez, Hardcover Julie Alter American tourists David (David Naughton)A groundbreaking collection of poems addressing how every kind of love self, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural is birthed, shaped, and complicated by the invisible forces of gender, capitalism, religion, migration, and so on. Love is at the heart of everything we do, and yet it is often mishandled, misrepresented, or narrowly defined. In the words of Jos Olivarez: "How many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to