{"product_id":"9781784743512","title":"Ballad of a Happy Immigrant","description":"\u003cb\u003eA dazzling debut collection of migration, home and homeland from an important Latinx voice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness. Leo Boix's poetry has a wide tilt and scope. It sings the doors open.\" -Ilya Kaminsky, author of \u003ci\u003eDeaf Republic.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"They are sailors from another century, stalwart \/ captured on daguerrotype, casually masculine, tender of heart.\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the middle of the last century, the SS \u003ci\u003eGeneral Pueyrredón\u003c\/i\u003e from Buenos Aires deposits Leo Boix's paternal grandfather on English soil for the first time. In the two years he spends there, he acquires a taste for his new homeland: from taking his tea white - muy blanco - to plunging into unfamiliar sensual worlds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e So begins the poet's own journey, arriving in the United Kingdom as a young queer man. \u003ci\u003eBallad of a Happy Immigrant\u003c\/i\u003e tells of the life he makes there: a dazzling collection of what it means to live, love and write between two cultures and traditions. Effortlessly moving between the English imagination and Spanish language, it is a boundless exploration of otherness and home, and the personal transformation that follows between 'loss \/ and a life \/ that starts anew.'","brand":"Penguin Random House UK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370540863549,"sku":"9781784743512","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781784743512_p0.jpg?v=1771563311","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9781784743512","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}