The Lust of Unsentimental Waters

by Rosa Alcala

Overview

"Rosa Alcalá's poems dwell in the liminal space between the personal and the political: poems built on the idea that 'the world exists,' and that work to define the metaphysical and ephemeral architectures of origin, migration, nationalism, and loss. Rosa Alcala is uncompromising, wry, and brutal: all of the qualities that significant poetic works of cultural criticism require." -Carmen Gimenez Smith

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848612334
Publisher:	Shearsman Books
Publication date:	09/15/2012
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.19(d)

About the Author

Rosa Alcalá is the author of two chapbooks, "Some Maritime Disasters This Century" (Belladonna, 2003) and "Undocumentary" (Dos Press, 2008). Her work appears in the anthology, "The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry" (University of Arizona Press, 2007), and in journals such as Mandorla, Chain, Barrow Street, Tarpaulin Sky, and The Brooklyn Rail. Alcalá has also translated poetry by Cecilia Vicuña, Lourdes Vázquez, and Lila Zemborain, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, and a PhD in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Born and raised in Paterson, NJ, she currently resides in El Paso, Texas, where she teaches in the Department of Creative Writing and Bilingual MFA Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.