In Morales’s newest collection, an imagined zombie apocalypse intertwines with personal narrative. From zombie dating to the sin of popcorn ceilings, these poems investigate the nature of impermanence while celebrating the complexities of life.
About the Author: Juan J. Morales
Juan J. Morales is the son of an Ecuadorian mother and Puerto Rican father. He is the author of three poetry collections, including Friday and the Year That Followed (2006 and Winner of the 2005 Rhea & Seymour Gorsline Poetry Competition), The Siren World (2015), and The Handyman’s Guide to End Times (2018). His poetry has appeared on/in CSPAN2, Colorado Public Radio, Copper Nickel, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Pleiades, Poetry Daily, South Carolina Review, Verse Daily, and others. He is a CantoMundo Fellow, a Macondista, the Editor/Publisher of Pilgrimage Press, and Department Chair of English & World Languages at Colorado State University-Pueblo. Follow him on Twitter @ChairmanJuan.
QUOTES: “These poems are imbued with the work of trying to understand the histories of broken things like unions, selves, homes, pasts. They carry strategies for survival even as they document crisis and loss.”—Aracelis Girmay, author of Kingdom Animalia: Poems “These poems are filled with energy and velocity and are at once intimate and grand. Smart, sharp, and intimate, Morales is a truly gifted writer.”—Kevin Prufer, author of How He Loved Them “These words are words we’ve always had inside but never been able to say, and this house coming together in these pages, we can live in it for a while.”—Stephen Graham Jones, author of Mongrels: A Novel // REVIEWS: Strange Horizons Review by Vivian Wagner http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/reviews/the-handymans-guide-to-end-times-by-juan-j-morales/ Hairstreak Butterfly Review Interview and Poems http://hairstreakbutterflyreview.com/ Colorado Springs Independent Event and Announcement https://www.csindy.com/Abstractions/archives/2018/10/08/colorado-colleges-visiting-writers-series-welcomes-juan-morales University of New Mexico Mirage Magazine (Page 32-33) https://issuu.com/unm-alumni-association/docs/unm-019-a-mirage-spring-2019-issuu Verse Daily-"Boy Scouts vs. Zombies" http://www.versedaily.org/2018/boyscoutsvszombies.shtml
Additional information
Book Author
Juan J. Morales
Format
Paperback
ISBN
978-0-8263-5998-8
Language
English
Pages
96
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)