{"product_id":"speaking-wiri-wiri-9781597092746","title":"Speaking Wiri Wiri","description":"Winner of the inaugural Letras Latinas\/Red Hen Poetry Prize, Dan Vera's \u003ci\u003eSpeaking Wiri Wiri\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of historical insight and wry wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it meditates on the challenges of multiple identities, ethnicity, geographies of migration, familial displacement, popular history, and more. Everything is fair game for Vera, who finds poetry in the mundane and the monumental, the hidden lives of iconic television stars and the alternate and accidental histories of Latinos in the United States. Carmen Miranda makes an appearance, as do Captain Kirk, Vladamir Nabokov, and José Martí in a literary landscape careening lyrically between lost and found.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDan Vera is a writer, editor and literary historian living in Washington, DC. He is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThe Space Between Our Danger and Delight \u003c\/i\u003e(Beothuk Books, 2008), and the editor of the gay culture journal \u003ci\u003eWhite Crane\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry has appeared in various journals including \u003ci\u003eNotre Dame Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeltway Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDelaware Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCutthroat\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGargoyle, Little Patuxent Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNaugatuck River\u003c\/i\u003e, the anthologies \u003ci\u003eDivining Divas\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFull Moon On K Street: Poems About Washington, DC\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eDC Poets Against the War\u003c\/i\u003e. He's the co-creator of the literary history site, DC Writers' Homes, and on the board of Split This Rock Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50359032217874,"sku":"9781597092746","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1b0c7f37-cd8f-4aae-aa48-7007456cd73b.jpg?v=1728349313","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/speaking-wiri-wiri-9781597092746","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}