{"product_id":"vuelta-9781955239400","title":"Vuelta","description":"\u003ci\u003eVuelta\u003c\/i\u003e is a long poem on a quest to recover the body through myth \u0026amp; memory, a reckoning with colonization \u0026amp; the return to our Pachamama. \u003ci\u003eVuelta\u003c\/i\u003e to revolt, to return, to revoltijo, to revoluci?n, to transform. It is a journey of tongue \u0026amp; breath that asks What's life through the mouth of the queer brown cuerpo. \u003ci\u003eVuelta\u003c\/i\u003e insists that our bodies are a walking love language miraculously unearthing the beginning \u0026amp; the collapse of time where we allow ourselves to begin again in the same way the monarch continues her journey evolving over \u0026amp; over again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLourdes Figueroa is an oral poet. Her poems are a dialogue of her lived experience when her family worked in el azad? n in Yolo County. The words el azad? n are used by the ones who work in the fields - the work of tilling the soil under the blistering sun. She is the author of the chapbooks yolotl and Ruidos = To Learn Speak, completed during her Alley Cat Books Residency. She received her MFA in Poetry at the University of San Francisco. She is a recipient of the 2021 Nomadic Press Literary Award in Poetry selected by emeritus poet Laureate Kim Shuck.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51298574336274,"sku":"9781955239400","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_64342c23-c28e-45f7-9b98-68c123b4078e.jpg?v=1747827915","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vuelta-9781955239400","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}