Tripas but No One Had Promised

but No One Had Promised It Would Be

Fountain in France

Often Humorous and Utterly Honest in His Pursuit of the Truth

Macabre London

yet Out of Their Suffering Steinbeck Created a Drama That is Intensely Human yet Majestic in Its Scale and Moral Vision

Tripas but No One Had PromisedWinner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry Finalist for the 2023 National Book Award for Poetry With Tripas, Brandon Som Follows Up His Award Winning Debut With a Book of Poems Built Out of a Multicultural, Multigenerational Childhood Home, in Which He Celebrates His Chicana Grandmother, Who Worked Nights on the Assembly Line at Motorola, and His Chinese American Father and Grandparents, Who Ran the Family Corner Store. Enacting a Como Se Dice