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Reduction in Force: Poems

by Hugo Dos Santos
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780872334069
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Bauhan Pub
  • Publisher Imprint: Bauhan Pub
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  • Pages: 104
  • Original Price: USD 18.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 159 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General

Dos Santos probes the cold, bureaucratic corporate world to reveal how betrayal reshapes the American dream.

In a literary moment when so much lyric poetry seems preoccupied with private experience and ready-made epiphany, Hugo Dos Santos's Reduction in Force is revelatory. It is, yes, an examination of the self, but it performs its review through lenses and landscapes that are rarely utilized in poetry, which is to say the cold and bureaucratized reality of the American corporate world, and the ways that world can affect and pressure the individuals and families who attempt to build their lives under the dominion of those companies. Dos Santos maps the experience of a true believer who must come to terms with the betrayal now inherent in what used to be known as the American dream and work through the humiliation of starting over. He does so in poems that are consistently surprising in content, satisfyingly varied in form and tone, and utterly, winningly, trustworthy to the reader. I haven't seen anything like this book before, and it heralds the arrival of an original poet, with the promise of more originality and excitement ahead. --Anthony Walton

Dos Santos, Hugo: - Hugo dos Santos is the author of Reduction in Force (Bauhan Publishing, 2026), winner of the May Sarter New Hampshire Poetry Prize, and Then, there (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), a collection of Newark stories. He is the translator of Homecoming (Arquipelago Press, 2024) and A Child in Ruins (Writ Large Press, 2016), a staff pick at the Paris Review Daily. Born in Lisboa, Portugal, and raised in Newark, New Jersey, he writes toward questions of diaspora, belonging, and memory.

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