The Riots by Danielle Cadena Deulen

The Riots by Danielle Cadena Deulen

Constantly surprising, these personal essays explore the attractions and dangers of intimacy and the violence that often arises in close relationships. Deulen's artful storytelling and dialogue also draw the reader into complicated questions about class, race, and gender.

There are moments of transcendent prose in this manuscript that elevate it far beyond what we might expect of it at first blushIt manages to become more profound, and more beautiful, the more desperate and tragic its trajectory. Finally, it is a triumph of wisdom and great art.

-- Luis Alberto Urrea * author of Into the Beautiful North *

There is general agreement that adverse childhood experiences leave permanent scars, but with a person as gifted as Danielle Cadena Deulen, the result is transformative for writer and reader alike. . . . Deulen poignantly and poetically relates the effects such experiences had on her, her family, and those around her. It is a sad, but beautiful, and, ultimately uplifting compilation.

-- ForeWord Reviews

Fierce, tender, explosively honest, Danielle Cadena Deulen's radiant debut sings like a prose poem and lingers like a fever dream. In the liminal world of The Riots, the face of a dead girl under the bridge worries a hole in your mind though you never see her, mercy shatters trust, and a boy's stuttering confession of love exposes his sister's crimes against him. Through the grace and devastation of shared memory, Deulen dares to know the dispossessed, to re-invent her father's life and try to save him as a child. She remembers what cannot be, transfiguring herself through the passion of desire.

-- Melanie Rae Thon * author of In This Light *

The Riots is rooted firmly in that world of hurt, mired in the struggle to understand and accept the past, and to do so—crucially—without being defeated by the onslaught of negative memory.

-- Diagram

Danielle Cadena Deulen has hit her stride and shows no signs of slowing. In a one-two punch, she has demonstrated her strength in prose and verse with recent successes in the awards circle. . . . One might think Deulen was born with a lucky streak, yet the linked essays in The Riots prove otherwise. . . . Throughout, Deulen seems both in charge of her determination yet powerless to change what life has allotted her. The result is a collection that encapsulates the awkwardness and discomfort of the author's past, present, and future.

-- Lori A. May * Iowa Review *

DANIELLE CADENA DEULEN is a poet and essayist. She is the author of a memoir, The Riots (winner of the AWP Award for Creative Nonfiction); two poetry collections, Lovely Asunder (winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize) and Our Emotions Get Carried Away Beyond Us (winner of the Barrow Street Book Prize); as well as a poetry chapbook, American Libretto (winner of the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Contest). She is an associate professor at Willamette University and hosts the literary podcast and radio show “Lit from the Basement” at LitFromTheBasement.com. Her author's website is danielledeulen.net.

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ISBN 13	9780820344386
ISBN 10	0820344389
Title	The Riots
Author	Danielle Cadena Deulen
Series	The Sue William Silverman Prize For Creative Nonfiction
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2013-01-01
Number of pages	192
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.