Breathing in Minneapolis

Author:   Patrick Cabello Hansel
Publisher:   Finishing Line Press
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9798888384039


Pages:   116
Publication Date:   24 November 2023
Format:   Paperback
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"Breathing in Minneapolis is a chronicle of the tumultuous events that defined 2020: the Covid pandemic, the murder of George Floyd, sometimes violent civil unrest, and the often murderous cruelty of American society. We encounter the sweet scent of lilacs competing with tear gas, immigrant store owners picking up burnt fragments, a young father crossing the Rio Grande on Christmas Eve, a pastor mourning a dying parishioner he cannot visit, a shower of cottonwood blossoms falling like snow. Breathing in Minneapolis invites us to join an intimate dance between the ordinary and the apocalyptic, where we never forget that it is the breath of courageous people and of the resilient earth that keeps us alive. Of this collection, poet and pastor Patrick Cabello Hansel writes: ""Most of these poems were written during one of the most difficult times for Minneapolis and the neighborhood I live and work in. We were battered by COVID, by the murder of George Floyd, the ensuing destruction of so much of the community, the threats against immigrants and the democratic process. Yet in that struggle, the breath of people and of the earth continued to sustain us. These poems reflect that power."""

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Author:   Patrick Cabello Hansel
Publisher:   Finishing Line Press
Imprint:   Finishing Line Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 0.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.181kg
ISBN:  

9798888384039


Pages:   116
Publication Date:   24 November 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Living near an epicenter of the tumultuous events of 2020-COVID, the murder of George Floyd, civil unrest, and the often murderous cruelty of American society-Patrick Cabello Hansel turns out to be the perfect chronicler of that year. The poems in Breathing In Minneapolis miraculously keep their lyricism while maintaining fidelity to fact. Hansel writes with extraordinary spiritual sensitivity of a multitude of different lives in a way Whitman would have envied. One poem asks, ""How far are we from heaven?"" and the answer given by the book may surprise readers: Not far, when such rich, deep compassion is brought to bear on our breathlessly desperate moment of truth.-Thomas R. Smith, author of Storm Island and Medicine Year These poems are of hiding, of being torn open, of meditating, of mourning, of marching, of anger, and ultimately of reverent adoration. True to the calling of his holy office, Patrick walks in deep alliance with neighbors nesting in shadows. He anoints us all to live into the breath of deep prayers rising for justice, for love, here in the epicenter of South Minneapolis.-Sandy Spieler, artist, former Artistic Director of In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre Patrick Cabello Hansel's Breathing in Minneapolis reveals a poet thoroughly engaged with people in crises. Hansel is a man of the world and the word, the ordinary and the apocalyptic. ""It's Lilac Time / and the Family Dollar is on fire"" begins a poem paying attention to both poetic pattern and moral outrage. With a poet's ear and a minister's heart, Hansel writes from inside our ""star spangled garage sale,"" negotiating the breathless space between lilacs and guns, rendering moments of crises against enduring liturgical patterns. These richly elegiac poems call us to breathe in a world not entirely broken, and despite ""the smoke on our fingers,"" to notice that birds might still sing ""cornstalk and sweet berry.""-Joyce Sutphen, Carrying Water to the Fields, and Walter Cannon, The Possible World"


Author Information

Patrick Cabello Hansel is the author of the poetry collections The Devouring Land (Main Street Rag Publishing) and Quitting Time (Atmosphere Press). He has published poems and prose in over 85 journals, including Crannog, Ilanot Review, Hawai'i Pacific Review, Ash & Bones, RiverSedge and Lunch Ticket, and won awards from the Loft Literary Center and MN State Arts Board. His novella Searching was serialized in 33 issues of The Alley News. He is the editor of The Phoenix of Phillips, a literary journal by and for the most diverse community in Minneapolis. He has taught creative writing in elementary and high schools, and with seniors and 1st generation immigrants. His website is: www.artecabellohansel.com

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