This Tangled Body - Softcover

Calatayud, Carmen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1963245598 ISBN 13: 9781963245592

Publisher: Flowersong Press, 2024

Synopsis

This Tangled Body by Carmen Calatayud reads as surreal poetic memoir, navigating family history, war, migration and the grit of relationships. Through lyrical language, she searches for ways to rescue a body that knows pain, addiction and generational trauma. Elegies, love letters and concussions cross paths here, along with planets and stars, demonstrating that the potential to heal is possible when raw truth and grace are present. Calatayud's willingness to face the land of the dead and cross all borders is on full display. As she invites us to "leave this continent and/light the path behind us on fire," her poetry insists we return to love, and love hard. 

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About the Authors

Aydee Lopez Martinez is a painter and ceramic artist based in Covina, California. She has a bachelor's degree in fine art from California State University-Los Angeles. Her work has been shown throughout California, in Arizona, and in New York, Chicago and Juarez, Mexico. In addition to painting and ceramics, she creates works with mosaic glass and natural stones. She has illustrated several children's books, and her work appears on the covers of several poetry and short story books. Visit aydeeart.com.

Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book In the Company of Spirits, published by Press 53, was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Anti-Heroin Chic, Cutthroat, Gargoyle, OyeDrum, PoetLore, Rogue Agent, Tahoma Literary Review and Verse Daily, and in numerous anthologies. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner, a Best of La Bloga winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Aydee Lopez Martinez is a painter and ceramic artist based in Covina, California. She has a bachelor's degree in fine art from California State University-Los Angeles. Her work has been shown throughout California, in Arizona, and in New York, Chicago and Juarez, Mexico. In addition to painting and ceramics, she creates works with mosaic glass and natural stones. She has illustrated several children's books, and her work appears on the covers of several poetry and short story books. Visit aydeeart.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Flowersong Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1963245598
• ISBN 13: 9781963245592
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 102