{"product_id":"matria-9781625579652","title":"Matria","description":"\" Truly remarkable poetry draws new connections between the emotional, physical, and psychological landscapes our lives move through. This is especially true of \u003ci\u003eMatria\u003c\/i\u003e, a stunning collection by Alexandra Lytton Regalado, who moves us among and between the intersections of motherhood and childhood, womanhood and country-hood. With arresting language full of grace and empathy, these poems dimension the fluidity and complexity of these relationships as both witness and the witnessed, mother and child, native and foreigner, in both English and Spanish.\" -- Richard Blanco\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRegalado, Alexandra:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Alexandra Lytton Regalado's poetry collection, MATRIA, is the winner of the St. Lawrence Book Award (Black Lawrence Press, 2017). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in \u003cem\u003ecream city review, Creative Nonfiction, Gulf Coast, MiPOesias, The Notre Dame Review, NANO Fiction, Narrative, OCHO, Passages North, Puerto del Sol, Phoebe, Radar Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. Alexandra holds an MFA in poetry from Florida International University and an MFA in fiction from Pacific University. Co-founder of Kalina publishing, Alexandra is author, editor, and\/or translator of more than ten Central American-themed books, most recently the bilingual Salvadoran prose anthology \u003cem\u003eVanishing Points\u003c\/em\u003e (2017). She is the winner of the 2015 Coniston Poetry Prize and her work has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets. Alexandra has a black belt in Kenpo Karate and currently lives in San Salvador with her husband and three children. Her ongoing photoessay project about El Salvador, through_the_bulletproof_glass, is on Instagram.","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50544935633170,"sku":"9781625579652","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e6bc1a3f-c4f1-4e3a-bed1-08cbfe585d2e.jpg?v=1731538802","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/matria-9781625579652","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}