{"product_id":"cloak-9781956375503","title":"Cloak","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of poetry, the second in the Margaret Randall Poetry Series, explores Dodici Azpadu's journey from her low-life origins in Red Hook, Brooklyn, through her time at the University of Iowa's MFA program, the street life of San Francisco and the emotional drought she there endured, and her later transformation in Albuquerque and the meditative mountains of New Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany poems in \u003cem\u003eCloak\u003c\/em\u003e are in free verse, and many are wakas and other syllabic forms. Together, they weave together the elements of a life made whole on the frayed edges of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAzpadu, Dodici:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Dodici Azpadu is a gender queer, American-born Sicilian Arab. They live with their Jewish spouse in New Mexico, where they practice Shalom Bayit (Peace in the House). Recently, Azpadu has come out of retirement to teach a master class in fiction writing at the University of New Mexico. Their novel Living Room was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the Golden Crown Literary Award, and the New Mexico Book Award. In 2025, they published Dead of Winter, a historical fiction novel about the underbelly of the women's movement in the 1970s.","brand":"Casa Urraca Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52179543818514,"sku":"9781956375503","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_16c3f510-7262-4628-9121-8580e5fcdc5d.jpg?v=1775638733","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cloak-9781956375503","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}