Boxing the Compass by Sandy Florian
Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. This novella of compressed, accreting, hungry paragraphs is full of sparkling diction and pinching rhythms; mysteriously, it silhouettes its interlocking motifs. Geography, family sadness, facts about the Old and New Worlds come into play. A real pleasure of a book.--Stacey LevineSandy Florian's gorgeous meditation, BOXING THE COMPAS, begins with kinds of unfolding, a sort of anti-origami of intention and desire: like love letters or lovers' bodies, exposing and withholding simultaneously. Any reader who opens herself, himself to this book is risking a special kind of pleasure. But the presiding engagement is not pleasure itself, but experience of unfolding, which can also be violent--an earthquake is a cosmic origami, and an accurate account of the mind awakening in this extraordinary book.--Bin Ramke
Florian, Sandy: - Of Colombian and Puerto Rican descent, Sandy Florian was born in New York and raised in Latin America. She is the author of six books of hybrid prose: TELESCOPE (Action Books, 2006), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (Tarpaulin Sky Press, 2007), THE TREE OF NO (Action Books, 2008), PRELUDE TO AIR FROM WATER (Elixir Press, 2010), ON WONDERLAND & WASTE (Sidebrow Press, 2010), and BOXING THE COMPASS (Noemi Press, 2013). She has been awarded a residency at Caldera Arts and a writer's grant supported residency at the Vermont Studio Center, as well as literary prizes from Elixir Press, New Voices, and Brown University. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Nonwestern Literature and Creative Writing at West Virginia University. She also serves as one of the other editors for Tarpaulin Sky Journal.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781934819289 |
| ISBN 10 | 193481928X |
| Title | Boxing the Compass |
| Author | Sandy Florian |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Noemi Press |
| Year published | 2013-05-14 |
| Number of pages | 114 |
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