{"product_id":"cruel-fiction-paperback","title":"Cruel Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWendy Trevino\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCruel Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e brings together new material with celebrated work published here for the first time in book form, including the provocative and charged \"Brazilian Is Not a Race,\" a sonnet sequence meditating on race, nation, and history seen from the author's native Rio Grande Valley; it also includes widely-circulated \"128-131,\" a caustic, hilarious, tender account memorializing three days in jail during the Occupy movement, one of the many insurgencies that provide the context and kinesis of this powerful collection. This is a spectacular debut trying to puzzle through our present, from the workplace to the pop charts but most of all to the politics of struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives in San Francisco, where she shares an apartment with her boyfriend, friend \u0026amp; two senior cats. She has published chapbooks with Perfect Lovers Press, Commune Editions and Krupskaya Books. \u003cem\u003eBrazilian no es una raza \u003c\/em\u003e- a bilingual edition of the chapbook she published with Commune Editions - was published by the feminist Mexican press Enjambre Literario in July 2018. \u003cem\u003eCruel Fiction \u003c\/em\u003eis her first book-length collection of poems. Wendy is not an experimental writer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 128\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 11, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42165322547335,"sku":"9781934639252","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ca99f003ffb650201cbf0e30aac46d79.webp?v=1733312718","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/cruel-fiction-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}