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S is For

S is For

S is For
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S is For Paperback - 2025

by Archila, William

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  • Title S is For
  • Author Archila, William
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Pages 70
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Black Lawrence Press
  • Publication date 2025-02-04
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9781625571748
  • ISBN 9781625571748 / 1625571747
  • Weight 0.35 lbs (0.16 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 in (21.34 x 13.72 x 1.02 cm)
  • Themes
    • Ethnic Orientation: Hispanic
    • Ethnic Orientation: Latino
  • Category Poetry
  • Quantity available 114

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From the publisher

S is For is an investigation by poet William Archila of the Central American migrant crisis haunted by the past of the civil war in El Salvador, the meanings of family spirits, and trees disappearing to urban sprawl-- always wielding the voice of the immigrant, the refugee, and the ever-present exile as a weapon against invisibility and displacement.

Inventive and compassionate, Archila's poems navigate the meanings of family spirits, weeds and wildflowers, and the irreverence to lay down roots with our dead. The collection expresses the importance of an inner voice from the perspective of exile-- people with no country, no language, ghosts split between present and past, between home and foreign. In a variety of forms-- quasi-sonnet, sestina, ekphrastic, syllabic, lyric, memorial-- the poems create a bridge between flaws and fractures, between the northern region of Central America and the beloved north which is the US.

S is for: every letter never uttered, but evoked.

About the author

William Archila is the author of The Art of Exile which was awarded the International Latino Book Award, and The Gravedigger's Archaeology which received the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize. He was also awarded the 2023 Jack Hazard fellowship. He has been published in Poetry Magazine, The American Poetry Review, AGNl, Copper Nickle, Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Missouri Review, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, TriQuarterly, and Indiana Review.

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