Gold That Frames the Mirror by Brandon Melendez

Brandon Melendez’s Gold That Frames the Mirror is a stunning collection about the things we carry with us—and the love that can never disappear.

Melendez charts territory through the stories, songs, memories, and people that make us who we are. These poems move through family, heritage, grief, music, and mental health while asking the big question: what does it mean to find a place to call home? Yet Melendez finds beauty in the aftermath and joy in unexpected places.

All that glitters is truly gold in this moving collection.

I kept reaching but never quite got a hold.
Ask me now why I did it & I’ll say
I never meant to.
I never meant to be the reason why
my father stopped laughing.

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Brandon Melendez is a Mexican-American poet from California. He is a National Poetry Slam finalist, Rustbelt Poetry Slam Finalist, and two-time Berkeley Grand Slam Champion. His poems are in or forthcoming in Sixth Finch, Tinderbox, decomP and elsewhere.