Yellow book cover depicting the title Flower Wars in green above four pairs of scissors, three turned blade downward and one blade up with author name in green at bottom.

Flower Wars • E-book

Details

Winner of the 2016 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
Saddle-stitched, letterpressed cover, 38 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
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Praise

“Nico Amador’s language is luminous and intimate. He’s pared down his lines to essential syllables, which sing and shine. His work reminds us that every path in life is strewn with dolor and shadows. Sorrow sings and shines, too. Yet, after reading these poems, I felt less lonely—I felt more alive. The poems in ‘Flower Wars’ are memorable, beautiful, and curative.”
–Eduardo Corral

“Nico Amador’s ‘Flower Wars’ showcases lithe, lively syntax, in which deceptively casual language magically takes on metaphoric reach and emotional depth. The voice here is honest, earnest, patiently determined to articulate living, complex truths about the self, about love, about commitment in a dangerous world in which ‘Somewhere, / small things [are] / being killed, quietly.’ Attending to and creating that quiet is one of Amador’s greatest gifts: in his lines, the hardest subject matter softly starts to sing.”
–Joy Ladin

“’Flower Wars’ is an otherworldly, vulnerable, astonishing ode to the process of metamorphosis. ‘We make our homes in the dark,’ writes Amador, and he shows us how, with startling lyric and a ferocity that, through his craftsmanship, transmutes the reader to a state of grace. This collection is an indispensable oracle for all of us learning to listen to what we have lost, to the living that ravels and multiplies in its stead.”
–Cynthia Dewi Oka

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Author

Nico Amador won the 2016 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize. His poems have appeared in APIARY, bedfellows, Big Bell, HOLD, Nimrod International Journal, MiPOesias, Plenitude Magazine, and Poet Lore. He is the author of the chapbook Flower Wars and a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow.

Artwork

Cover by LK James.

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Categories: Chapbooks, Nico Amador, Poetry