Remains

(Hardback)

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Jesus Castillo has created a sprawling contemporary epic that channels the mighty voices of the past (Virgil, Ezra Pound) into a plainspoken song of our times. In a deft, generous style, Castillo takes hold of the stuff of our everyday lives and converts it into modern manna. The book is lovingly relentless, quietly piercing. It is a terrifyingly r

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"Riveting complexity and range, and capacious enough to contain multitudes. In a voice both intimate and assured, Castillo makes a discordant music of our present moment. Under the pressure of his impressive intellect, observation brings revelation: 'Everything feels weary this millennium,' the poet writes. 'But today, today will be different.' An ambitious, innovative first book of epic scope." --Deborah Landau

Author Bio

Jesus Castillo was born in 1986 in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. He moved to California with his parents and sister in 1998. In 2009, he graduated from the University of California-San Diego where he studied literature and writing. Castillo helped organize 'Lectric Collective, an art and poetry collaboration in the Bay Area, and he was a founding editor of Vertebrae. He has lived in Oceanside, La Jolla, Oakland, San Francisco, and Iowa City where he received an MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.