{"product_id":"sapello-son-paperback","title":"Sapello Son - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlejandro Lucero\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEditors' Selection from the 2022 Frost Place Chapbook Competition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFields of alfalfa turned into tufts of fire hazard from drought. The walls of a cold mobile home. A cut straw, stained ballcap, dirty carpets. These are the images that haunt \u003cem\u003eSapello Son\u003c\/em\u003e, Alejandro Lucero's lyric rekindling of a childhood in New Mexico and the landscape that consumed his parents. Lucero's familiarity with the razor's edge of choices foisted on those at the fringes keeps us teetering between profound devotion to family and sober recognition of the ways some families fail. Like its namesake, \u003cem\u003eSapello Son \u003c\/em\u003eavoids sentimentality and refuses sympathy, asking us to reckon with the only things we're born with: a place, a family, and a name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlejandro Lucero is a writer from Sapello, New Mexico. A 2022 June Fellow at the Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets, and former editor for \u003cem\u003eCopper Nickel\u003c\/em\u003e, his work can be found in publications such as \u003cem\u003eThe Adroit Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Cincinnati Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Florida Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Offing\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Southern Review\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Baltimore where he is an MFA student in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and an assistant editor for \u003cem\u003eThe Hopkins Review\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 42\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.24 x 7.8 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 11, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47354041303289,"sku":"9781949344516","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/3Ry3RKq7hV9781949344516.webp?v=1769829024","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/sapello-son-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}