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Joemario Umana invents the voice of a poet-cleric in his gazelle A Flower Is Not… And he’s homily is to decry the culture of silence and indifference society perpetrates against boys and men. Most of these poems are about his personal battles with this issue. He writes “there’s something the incense / shares with a boy’s voice—they are both good / at disappearing…” He employs religious imageries in some places drawing from his Christian upbringing, even when it feels he uses same as rebellion to the religion.
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