{"product_id":"traveling-freely-essays-9780810147881","title":"Traveling Freely: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA poet's debut essay collection exploring American faults through the eyes of a Dominican American\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In \u003ci\u003eTraveling Freely: Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, Roberto Carlos Garcia explores intersecting topics such as race, identity, American socioeconomic inequality, police violence, our inability to partake in our culture as innocents, and our complicity as Americans in all that's wrong with the United States from the author's specific vantage point as a Black Dominican American man. The voice in these essays is both clear and nuanced, and as readers move through the collection, the various themes cohere into a multilayered investigation of institutional racism and the inherent exploitations of capitalism. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In essays that are uniquely straightforward and accessible, Garcia insists that in order to resist state-sanctioned violence against marginalized bodies and populations, we must understand our shared history of oppression--so that we can rise against it effectively and find new paths forward. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eROBERTO CARLOS GARCIA\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eWhat Can I Tell You? Selected Poems, \u003c\/i\u003e as well as the founder of Get Fresh Books Publishing, a literary nonprofit. The recipient of a 2023 fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, he writes about the Afro-Latinx and Afro-diasporic experience. His work has been published in \u003ci\u003ePoetry Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, NACLA, \u003ci\u003eThe Root\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, and the anthology \u003ci\u003eBreakBeat Poets Vol. 4: LatiNext\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Curbstone Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50892925600018,"sku":"9780810147881","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_017064cb-9c3c-460f-9aa6-5460020844fb.jpg?v=1738212433","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/traveling-freely-essays-9780810147881","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}