{"product_id":"thrown-in-the-throat-paperback","title":"Thrown in the Throat - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBenjamin Garcia\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected by Kazim Ali as a winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series, \u003cem\u003eThrown in the Throat\u003c\/em\u003e \"gloriously stakes new territory in queerness.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 Kate Tufts Discovery Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Lambda Literary \"Most Anticipated LGBTQ Book\" of August 2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNamed a \"Must-Read Poetry Collection\" of August 2020 by The Millions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tongues make mistakes \/ and mistakes \/ make languages.\" And Benjamin Garcia makes a stunning debut with \u003cem\u003eThrown in the Throat.\u003c\/em\u003e In a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times, Garcia writes boldly of citizenship, family, and Adam Rippon's butt. Detailing a childhood spent undocumented, one speaker recalls nights when \"because we cannot sleep \/ we dream with open eyes.\" Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country's long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith language that arrives equal parts regal and raucous, \u003cem\u003eThrown in the Throat\u003c\/em\u003e shines brilliant with sweat and an iridescent voice. \"Sometimes even a diamond was once alive\" writes Garcia in a collection that National Poetry Series judge Kazim Ali says \"has deadly superpowers.\" And indeed these poems arrive to our hands through touch-me-nots and the slight cruelty of mothers, through closets both real and metaphorical. These are poems complex, unabashed, and needed as survival. Garcia's debut is nothing less than exactly the ode our history and present and our future call for: brash and unmistakably alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Garcia's first collection of poems, \u003ci\u003eThrown in the Throat\u003c\/i\u003e, was selected for the 2019 National Poetry Series by Kazim Ali. He is a 2019 Lambda Literary Fellow, was the 2017 Latinx Scholar at the Frost Place, and was a 2018 CantoMundo Fellow at the Palm Beach Poetry Festival. His work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets 2018\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Missouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Garcia received his MFA from Cornell University and currently works as a sexual health and harm reduction educator in the Finger Lakes region of New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.3 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 11, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769469042976,"sku":"9781571315212","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/94ecb2a5d9c21a71ca39792c1e5778ad.webp?v=1780348906","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/thrown-in-the-throat-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}