Cruel fiction - wendy trevino

Cruel Fiction brings together new material with celebrated work published here for the first time in book form, including the provocative and charged Brazilian Is Not a Race, a sonnet sequence meditating on race, nation, and history seen from the authors native Rio Grande Valley; it also includes widely-circulated 128-131, a caustic, hilarious, tender account memorializing three days in jail during the Occupy movement, one of the many insurgencies that provide the context and kinesis of this powerful collection.

This is a spectacular debut trying to puzzle through our present, from the workplace to the pop charts but most of all to the politics of struggle.