{"product_id":"the-chronicles-paperback","title":"The Chronicles - 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\u003eRamón García\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy evoking the Old Testament book referenced in the title of the collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e recounts distinctive aspects of a Mexican American's presence in California. Fairy tales, bible stories, and Greek myths are reinvented as the genealogy of a poet obsessed by memory and the transformations of dislocation. The Frog Prince longs to be a frog again, Sleeping Beauty doesn't know who she is, Medusa is a misunderstood femme-fatale, Bluebeard is a desired eccentric, and Marilyn Monroe wins the first annual Miss Artichoke beauty contest. Ram?n Garc?a brings to life landscapes populated by misfits who find--like their mythical counterparts--a sense of belonging between the marvelous and the ordinary, memory and reality. In coming to terms with the intricacies of immigration and migration, Garc?a defamiliarizes well-known tales, rewriting enchanting and disturbing versions of stories we thought we knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eOther Countries \u003c\/i\u003e(What Books Press, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eRicardo Valverde\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), Ramón García has published poetry in a variety of journals and anthologies including \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry 1996\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmbit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of US-Hispanic Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), \u003ci\u003e Crab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Poetry Salzburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMandorla: New Writing from the Americas. \u003c\/i\u003eA founding member of the Glass Table Collective, an artist collective formed in 2008, he is a professor at California State University, Northridge and lives in Los Angeles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47352908677369,"sku":"9781597094283","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/BEXNrz7G8O9781597094283.webp?v=1769815844","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-chronicles-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}