ceniza cañaveral y otros productos (reedbed ash and other products)

grey textured book cover with abstract illustrations and letterpress printed title at the bottom
ceniza cañaveral y otros productos (reedbed ash and other products) (2020) Raquel Salas Rivera
book open to title page
reedbed ash and other products (2020) Raquel Salas Rivera
spread with poem and green design
reedbed ash and other products (2020) Raquel Salas Rivera
book open to colophon printed on extra short page
reedbed ash and other products (2020) Raquel Salas Rivera
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reedbed ash and other products (2020) Raquel Salas Rivera
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reedbed ash and other products (2020) Raquel Salas Rivera
cover of reedbed ash and other products (2020) Raquel Salas Rivera
reedbed ash and other products (2020) Raquel Salas Rivera

Publisher: Center for Book Arts

Edition: 100

Year: 2020

Binding: Soft cover, hand sewn dosido binding

Dimensions: 6.25 x 12 inches

Pages: 24

Materials:

  • letterpress printed on paper
  • signed and numbered by the poet

This chapbook was published on the occasion of the poet Raquel Salas Rivera’s reading at Center for Book Arts on October 22, 2020. The book was designed, printed, and bound by Aurora De Armendi with the assistance of Ana Paula Cordiero.

Raquel Salas Rivera (Mayagüez, 1985) is a Puerto Rican poet, translator, and editor. His honors include being named the 2018-19 Poet Laureate of Philadelphia and receiving the New Voices Award from Puerto Rico’s Festival de la Palabra. He is the author of five full-length poetry books. His third book, lo terciario/ the tertiary won the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award. His fourth book, while they sleep (under the bed is another country), was longlisted for the 2020 Pen America Open Book Award and was a finalist for CLMP’s 2020 Firecracker Award. His fifth book, x/ex/exis won the inaugural Ambroggio Prize. antes que isla es volcán/ before island is volcano, his sixth book, is an imaginative leap into Puerto Rico’s decolonial future and is forthcoming from Beacon Press in 2022. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania and now writes and teaches in Puerto Rico.

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