The poems in Misael Osorio-Conde’s debut collection some were just the Fragments / es qué fueron sólo los Fragmentos engage with memory to reenact the cultural, psychological, and linguistic border-crossing that Osorio-Conde experienced as part of his formative years where he learned to live in the shadows of exile as well as a new language. Threading the needle between disclosure and acceptance, lyricism and narrative, and encapsulating new and inventive formal structures, the poems in some were just the Fragments / es qué fueron sólo los Fragmentos attempt to make sense of Osorio-Conde’s crossing while grieving an indefinitely deferred return to his native land. The poems presented in this bilingual collection are built for our contemporary moment, while laced with the timeless realities, hardships, and most importantly, the successes, loves, family, and camaraderie that define human experience.
An excerpt from some were just the Fragments // es que fueron solo los Fragmentos
Book Details
Title: some were just the Fragments // es que fueron solo los Fragmentos
Author: Misael Osorio-Conde
Publication Date: September 8, 2026
Trade Paperback
7 x 9 in.
126 pages
ISBN: 978-1-936097-70-8
$16.95
Dist. by Publishers Group West
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