{"product_id":"cruel-fiction-9781934639252","title":"Cruel Fiction","description":"\u003cem\u003eCruel Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e brings together new material with celebrated work published here for the first time in book form, including the provocative and charged \"Brazilian Is Not a Race,\" a sonnet sequence meditating on race, nation, and history seen from the author's native Rio Grande Valley; it also includes widely-circulated \"128-131,\" a caustic, hilarious, tender account memorializing three days in jail during the Occupy movement, one of the many insurgencies that provide the context and kinesis of this powerful collection. This is a spectacular debut trying to puzzle through our present, from the workplace to the pop charts but most of all to the politics of struggle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives in San Francisco, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend, friend \u0026amp; two senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. \u003cem\u003eBrazilian no es una raza \u003c\/em\u003e- a bilingual edition of the chapbook she published with Commune Editions - was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. \u003cem\u003eCruel Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis her first book-length collection of poems. Wendy is not an experimental writer.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Commune Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697983099154,"sku":"9781934639252","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e5cfe735-e133-435b-adeb-6cdb6d31575b.jpg?v=1734314147","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cruel-fiction-9781934639252","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}