On This Side of the Desert - Aguilar, Alfredo
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"This debut book of poetry describes the experience of being raised in southern California as a child of Mexican immigrants in the shadow of the borderlands. Just as the borderlands are defined by the desert, so, too, are its inhabitants defined by their families, their culture shaped from the clay of the Sonoran desert and given life by the nourishing water of their ancestors. In these poems, the desert is recognized for what it truly is-a living, breathing body filled with both joy and pain"--

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"This debut book of poetry describes the experience of being raised in southern California as a child of Mexican immigrants in the shadow of the borderlands. Just as the borderlands are defined by the desert, so, too, are its inhabitants defined by their families, their culture shaped from the clay of the Sonoran desert and given life by the nourishing water of their ancestors. In these poems, the desert is recognized for what it truly is-a living, breathing body filled with both joy and pain"--
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Autorenporträt
Alfredo Aguilar is the son of Mexican immigrants and author of the chapbook What Happens on Earth (BOAAT Press, 2018). Aguilar is a winner of the 92Y's Discovery Poetry Contest and has been awarded fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Frost Place. His work has appeared in The Shallow Ends, Best New Poets 2017, Adroit Journal, and elsewhere.