{"product_id":"ballad-of-a-happy-immigrant-by-leonardo-boix","title":"Ballad of a Happy Immigrant by Leonardo Boix","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'They are sailors from another century, stalwart \/ captured on daguerrotype, casually masculine, tender of heart.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the middle of the last century, the SS General Pueyrredon from Buenos Aires deposits Leo Boix's paternal grandfather on English soil for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 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. So begins the poet's own journey, arriving in the United Kingdom as a young queer man. \u003cem\u003eBallad of a Happy Immigrant\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEffortlessly 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.'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\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'\u003c\/em\u003e Ilya Kaminsky, author of Deaf Republic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 80 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39997967401133,"sku":"","price":10.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/products\/9781784743512.jpg?v=1622574465","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/ballad-of-a-happy-immigrant-by-leonardo-boix","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}