{"product_id":"moon-as-salted-lemon-9781949065381","title":"Moon as Salted Lemon","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eClayre Benzadón's award-winning debut full-length poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eMoon as Salted Lemon, \u003c\/em\u003eis a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish, American, and nonbinary identity. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003eClayre Benzadón's \u003cstrong\u003emultilingual\u003c\/strong\u003e poetry utilizes \u003cstrong\u003elanguage and formal experimentation\u003c\/strong\u003e to interrogate the limits of language, gender, and culture. Benzadón places special focus on the \u003cstrong\u003ephenomenological body \u003c\/strong\u003eand the \u003cstrong\u003esomatic practices of poetry.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpansive in its themes, \u003cem\u003eMoon as Salted Lemon, \u003c\/em\u003eexplores \u003cstrong\u003esex, the queer body, popular culture, history\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eSephardic Jewish identity\u003c\/strong\u003e using both personal experience and \u003cstrong\u003eexpansive historical research \u003c\/strong\u003ewhich transforms a section of the book into \u003cstrong\u003edocumentary poetics \u003c\/strong\u003eof the history of Jewish people in Spain. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOverall, this book is about the \u003cstrong\u003eintersections \u003c\/strong\u003ethat exist in the world, that perhaps nothing is a binary. \u003cstrong\u003eNonbinary Identity\u003c\/strong\u003e is, in fact, the core. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMoon as Salted Lemon\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of \u003cem\u003eDriftwood Press's \u003c\/em\u003eEditor's Pick Prize, is a tight, current, and expansive collection which will challenge and inspire poetry readers of all kinds. It is particularly well-suited to those interested in gender, experimentation, and history. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBenzadón, Clayre:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Clayre Benzadón (she \/ they) is a queer (bi \/pan) Sephardic (Mizrahi)-Ashkenazi poet, educator (adjunct professor) and activist. Her chapbook, \"Liminal Zenith\", was published by SurVision Books in 2019. Her manuscript Moon as Salted Lemon was recently named an honorable mention for Miami Book Fair's 2025 Emerging Writer's Fellowship. She has been published in places including Jet Fuel Review, Libre, and SWWIM.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWagner, Sara:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize (2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), and Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022), and of two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022) and Hooked Through (2017). She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies including Gulf Coast, Smartish Pace, Waxwing, Beloit Poetry Journal, and North American Review, among others. In 2023, she became the Managing Poetry Editor of Driftwood Press.","brand":"Driftwood Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51623996817682,"sku":"9781949065381","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6c783050-c17c-4ff9-89df-d0e73913e943.jpg?v=1758651436","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/moon-as-salted-lemon-9781949065381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}