{"product_id":"the-riots-paperback","title":"The Riots - 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\u003eDanielle Cadena Deulen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConstantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen's artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about class, race, and gender. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \"Aperture,\" she considers how she has contributed to her autistic brother's isolation from family and from the world. \"Theft\" investigates her mother's romantic stories about conquistadors in the context of the Mexican heritage of her biracial family. Throughout the collection Deulen experiments formally, alternating traditional narrative with \"still life\" essays and collages that characterize a particular time, place, and sensibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeulen is remarkable in her ability to present her own confusion and culpability, and she also writes with compassion for others, such as her own suicidal and unpredictable father or a boy in her class who sets the teacher's hair on fire. In part because she herself so poorly fits the identities she might be assigned--white in appearance, she is in fact half Latina; raised in a poor neighborhood, she has acquired an education associated with the middle class--Deulen sees \"otherness\" as a useless category and the enemy of intimacy, which she embraces despite its risks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Riots\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to create what Frost called \"a momentary stay against confusion,\" and Deulen investigates her own act of creation even as she uses the craft of writing to put parentheses around the chaos of continuous living.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDANIELLE CADENA DEULEN is a poet and essayist. She is the author of a memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe Riots\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction); two poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eLovely Asunder\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize) and \u003ci\u003eOur Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize); as well as a poetry chapbook, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Libretto\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the Sow's Ear Chapbook Contest). She is an associate professor at Willamette University and hosts the literary podcast and radio show \"Lit from the Basement\" at LitFromTheBasement.com. Her author's website is danielledeulen.net.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.6 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 01, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180396560633,"sku":"9780820344386","price":25.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/SkR2N1Jpam5OOU1LcW5oLzRQRDVCQT09.webp?v=1767737307","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-riots-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}