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Lucrecia Guerrero

Listen to the episodeLucrecia Guerrero Author On this episode of Words on a Wire, host Daniel Chacón talks with author Lucrecia Guerrero about her new book, On the Mad River (Mouthfeel Press, 2024). Lucrecia Guerrero grew up in Nogales, Arizona in a bilingual and...

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Por favor 

Por favor 

The candle in his altar is always on fire and our curtains are always drawn. When the lamp is on, baña the entire living-room in rojo. Sometimes, the speakers blast hardwave, more often technobanda or cante jondo—although yesterday it was cantos greogrianos that woke me up from my siesta. I smoke at a table outside of a downtown bar ahora, trying to read Plato.

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Malombres

Malombres

by Román Luján |
mira a esos grasientos quedarse con nuestros trabajos / míralos multiplicarse chinches liendres /
contaminar nuestro sistema educativo / agotar nuestra reserva de fórmula infantil / míralos al sol con sus bigotes ralos / con sus frentes ajadas sus nudillos bulbosos /
sus ganas de inmolarse en huertos de manzana / bad hombres intrusos malolientes / quémalos con una lupa enorme oh dios / mientras cruzan el desierto de arizona

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