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"Something Close to God" explores the themes of redemption, identity, and overcoming adversity in the face of cisheteropatriarchal expectations. This collection of poems is unafraid to scream at God and demand answers from the great void. It also delves into the catharsis of grief and follows the speaker through the trajectory of making peace with the act of letting go. In their work, Erika Del Carmen Ruiz heavily explores the concept of confessional poetry, connecting trauma with artistic expression. The book offers a deeply personal and revealing examination of intense emotional struggles,…mehr

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"Something Close to God" explores the themes of redemption, identity, and overcoming adversity in the face of cisheteropatriarchal expectations. This collection of poems is unafraid to scream at God and demand answers from the great void. It also delves into the catharsis of grief and follows the speaker through the trajectory of making peace with the act of letting go. In their work, Erika Del Carmen Ruiz heavily explores the concept of confessional poetry, connecting trauma with artistic expression. The book offers a deeply personal and revealing examination of intense emotional struggles, allowing the reader to gain a profound understanding of these experiences.
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Autorenporträt
Erika Del Carmen Ruiz is an agender fem (they/them) poet and organizer from San Bernardino, California. Erika received their B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Redlands in 2017. They have published poetry in The Redlands Review and shufPoetry and was also the Poetry Editor for the LGBTQ youth literary magazine inQluded before it disbanded in 2020. They have also published articles on The Body Is Not An Apology and Chronicles of a Mixed Fat Chick. Outside of writing, Erika is co-founder of the Inland Empire Prism Collective, an LGBTQ-led organization in Southern California. You can find them @erimikat on Instagram.