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"Carmen Calatayud's courageous poems not only sing, but talk straight from the heart about love and death, the everyday as well as the inexplicable. These poems accomplish that rare feat of weaving a spell from the first to last page that causes everything else to fall away. When she writes, 'In this corner of the desert, she has already died. I pick up her broken mask, promise to glue it together again,' the reader is swept up on a quest to give voice to those unable to speak. It is this fearless desire to tell the truth that makes the poems in In the Company of Spirits matter." -Devreaux…mehr

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"Carmen Calatayud's courageous poems not only sing, but talk straight from the heart about love and death, the everyday as well as the inexplicable. These poems accomplish that rare feat of weaving a spell from the first to last page that causes everything else to fall away. When she writes, 'In this corner of the desert, she has already died. I pick up her broken mask, promise to glue it together again,' the reader is swept up on a quest to give voice to those unable to speak. It is this fearless desire to tell the truth that makes the poems in In the Company of Spirits matter." -Devreaux Baker, winner of the 2011 PEN Oakland award for Red Willow People
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Carmen Calatayud is the daughter of immigrants: A Spanish father and Irish mother. Her book In the Company of Spirits, published by Press 53, was a runner-up for the Academy of American Poets Walt Whitman Award and a finalist for the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. Her work has appeared in journals such as Anti-Heroin Chic, Cutthroat, Gargoyle, OyeDrum, PoetLore, Rogue Agent, Tahoma Literary Review and Verse Daily, and in numerous anthologies. She is a Larry Neal Poetry Award winner, a Best of La Bloga winner and a Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fellow. She lives in San Antonio, Texas.