{"product_id":"loteria-nocturnal-sweepstakes-paperback","title":"Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eElizabeth Torres\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement. Conjuring dreamlike visions of extravagant fruits and rivers animated by the power of divination, these poems follow the speaker from the lash of war's arrival through an urgent escape and reinvention in a land that saves with maternal instinct but also smothers its children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this bilingual collection, Colombian American poet Elizabeth Torres threads together the stories of family dynamics and the realities of migration with the archetypes of tarot and the traditional Lotería game, used for centuries as an object of divination and entertainment. Through these themes and images, the poems in \u003ci\u003eLotería \u003c\/i\u003enarrate intimate moments in the lives and journeys of migrants, refugees, and all who have been forced into metamorphosis in order to reach the other side of the river. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eElizabeth Torres (Madam Neverstop) is a poet, multimedia artist, and literary translator. \u003cbr\u003e\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 0.4 x 9.2 x 7.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 28, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51757785317664,"sku":"9780816549603","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/474329b35c1778cc2875c71a4dc6c198.webp?v=1780111730","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/loteria-nocturnal-sweepstakes-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}