To Learn to Describe the Animal
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Simultaneously tender-hearted and unsparing, Gil's English language debut is a subversively powerful collection of poems about fatherhood, violence, the tense and fraying bonds that connect families and nations; Puerto Rico, 'an island where, experts say, most cannot live at all;' and so much else that is 'badly beautiful.'
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Guillermo Rebollo Gil (San Juan, 1979) writes poetry, creative nonfiction and cultural and literary criticism. His poems have appeared in BOMB, Fence, Poetry Northwest, The Hopkins Review, and other journals. In 2020, the Spanish publisher Ediciones Liliputienses published a selection of his Spanish-language poetry under the title Informe de Logros: poemas 2000-2019. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Florida, a law degree from the University of Puerto Rico, and an MFA from Bennington College. Es el papá de Lucas Imar y Elián Iré.