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in defense of gold

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By José Olivarez
| Poetry Magazine Verified
i know it’s unnecessary, but hear me out: as a kid, even the gold kept in the mall was fake. chains that would leave metallic stains on our oversized white tees. when you’re broke, everything you touch is artificial. our Christmas trees: plastic. puffy coats: polyester. our dreams: synthetic. we didn’t come up with spinning rims: we saw it on television. hand-me-downs. one of my homies used to love saying: just cuz you’re breathing doesn’t mean you’re alive. okay. i feel that.
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Lingering Inland

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By José Olivarez
| uillinois.edu
About the Book How do the stories we tell about Midwestern places influence or reflect our experiences? How is the literature of a place or a region relevant to the people who live there? In this expansive anthology, Andy Oler collects 73 original short essays by a diverse array of contemporary writers. Each explores locales in Midwestern literature relevant to the life and work of literary figures and canonical authors such as Toni Morrison and Willa Cather.
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A Poem for Our Times

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By José Olivarez
| Chicago Magazine Verified
For text to accompany Carlos Javier Ortiz’s images of the federal immigration blitz, Chicago commissioned José Olivarez to write a poem. The son of Mexican immigrants, Olivarez, whose 2023 collection was longlisted for a National Book Award, now lives in New Jersey but was born in Calumet City and spent many years in Chicago.
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