{"product_id":"the-chronicles-9781597094283","title":"The Chronicles","description":"By evoking the Old Testament book referenced in the title of the collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Chronicles\u003c\/i\u003e recounts distinctive aspects of a Mexican American's presence in California. Fairy tales, bible stories, and Greek myths are reinvented as the genealogy of a poet obsessed by memory and the transformations of dislocation. The Frog Prince longs to be a frog again, Sleeping Beauty doesn't know who she is, Medusa is a misunderstood femme-fatale, Bluebeard is a desired eccentric, and Marilyn Monroe wins the first annual Miss Artichoke beauty contest. Ram?n Garc?a brings to life landscapes populated by misfits who find--like their mythical counterparts--a sense of belonging between the marvelous and the ordinary, memory and reality. In coming to terms with the intricacies of immigration and migration, Garc?a defamiliarizes well-known tales, rewriting enchanting and disturbing versions of stories we thought we knew.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe author of \u003ci\u003eOther Countries \u003c\/i\u003e(What Books Press, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eRicardo Valverde\u003c\/i\u003e (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), Ram?n Garc?a has published poetry in a variety of journals and anthologies including \u003ci\u003eBest American Poetry 1996\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmbit\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Floating Borderlands: Twenty-Five Years of US-Hispanic Literature \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), \u003ci\u003e Crab Orchard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Poetry Salzburg Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Los Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMandorla: New Writing from the Americas. \u003c\/i\u003eA founding member of the Glass Table Collective, an artist collective formed in 2008, he is a professor at California State University, Northridge and lives in Los Angeles. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50921651994898,"sku":"9781597094283","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1e26abdc-7e6a-447b-8c01-0bd8294edc23.jpg?v=1738922637","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-chronicles-9781597094283","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}