How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters -- Saúl Hernández, Paperback

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How to Kill a Goat and Other Monsters -- Saúl Hernández, PaperbackOne is never sure who the monsters are in these poems, only that the narrator desperately doesn't want to be one. In his brilliant debut collection, Hernndez explores grief, loss, identity, lineage, and belonging with grace, insight, and compassion. These pages are infused with comfort, with desire, with heartache. Never absent is love, family. Hernndez hyperaware of American society's dismissal or hatred of people who look like him writes with a

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