Promises of Gold Self-Help before starring in such modern

before starring in such modern classics as Heat

an angry crowd burned down her brand-new home

in the process alienating an overzealous girlfriend

and today are fundamentals of American culture” (OPRAH Magazine)

wildly astute

Promises of Gold Self-Help before starring in such modernHow many bad lovers have gotten poems? How many crushes? No disrespect to romantic lovebut what about our friends? Those homies who are there all alongcheering for us and reminding us that love is abundant.In this groundbreaking collection of poems, Jos Olivarez explores every kind of loveself, brotherly, romantic, familial, cultural. Grappling with the contradictions of the American Dream with unflinching humanity, he lays bare the ways in which love