{"product_id":"indifferent-cities-9781961209329","title":"Indifferent Cities","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems exploring the push and pull of migration and immigration, familial archive, and regional history.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through one state to another, from one country to the next \u003ci\u003eIndifferent Cities\u003c\/i\u003e traverses both distance and time to reconcile the most confounding reality of family: our people, sometimes, are the people we know least. Utilizing forms such as ekphrasis and epistolary, the collection sources photographs, postcards, and official documents as well as rumor, suspicion, and supposition to uncover the consequences, by choice or circumstance, of migration and immigration between Mexico and the United States across four generations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Surveying the terrain of what one knows and does not know, what one inherits and disinherits, \u003ci\u003eIndifferent Cities\u003c\/i\u003e wrestles with every departure, each arrival, and the author's inevitable return to determine where and to who he belongs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eÁngel García\u003c\/b\u003e, the proud son of Mexican immigrants, is the author of \u003ci\u003eTeeth Never Sleep\u003c\/i\u003e, recipient of a CantoMundo Poetry Prize, an American Book Award, and finalist for a PEN America Open Book Award and a Kate Tufts Discovery Award. He has received fellowships from CantoMundo, Community of Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and MacDowell. He currently teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tupelo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51735024009490,"sku":"9781961209329","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_078232a9-cdc8-49e3-985d-11f7d1ec665c.jpg?v=1763492430","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/indifferent-cities-9781961209329","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}