{"product_id":"diaries-of-a-terrorist-9781556596346","title":"Diaries of a Terrorist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSexy, outspoken, and explosive, the terrorist of Soto's debut collection resists police violence with linguistic verve and radical honesty.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This debut poetry collection demands the abolition of policing and human caging. In \u003ci\u003eDiaries of a Terrorist, \u003c\/i\u003eChristopher Soto uses the \"we\" pronoun to emphasize that police violence happens not only to individuals, but to whole communities. His poetics open the imagination towards possibilities of existence beyond the status quo. Soto asks, \"Who do we call terrorist, \u0026amp; why\"? These political surrealist poems shift between gut-wrenching vulnerability, laugh-aloud humor, and unapologetic queer punk raunchiness. \u003ci\u003eDiaries of a Terrorist \u003c\/i\u003eis groundbreaking in its ability to speak--from a local to a global scale--about one of the most important issues of our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Soto\u003c\/b\u003e (he\/they) is a poet from Los Angeles, California, who also goes by the name Loma. They work at UCLA with the Ethnic Studies Centers and sit on the Board of Directors for Lambda Literary. A 2019 CantoMundo fellow, they are the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eSad Girl Poems\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eNepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Copper Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50671612657938,"sku":"9781556596346","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0b1a89e9-7db4-4601-857d-1db5343f75fe.jpg?v=1733806016","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/diaries-of-a-terrorist-9781556596346","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}