Bicycle in a Ransacked City: An Elegy - Paperback

by Andrés Cerpa (Author)

These quiet, descriptive poems blaze with an inferno of lamenting and loving muses as a son helplessly watches his father suffer from a debilitating illness. The inquisitive voice of the speaker gently paints an emotional landscape ranging from childhood to the present, while trying to find glimpses of happiness in the imminent sorrow.

Author Biography

Andrés Cerpa was raised in Staten Island, New York. He holds degrees from the University of Delaware and Rutgers University Newark. A recipient of a fellowship from the McDowell Colony and a scholarship from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, The Cider Press Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Devil's Lake, Perigee, RHINO and West Branch.