At the Bottom of the Sea with One Light (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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Winner of the 25th A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Alejandro Lucero's debut collection, At the Bottom of the Sea with One Light, is rooted in the landscape of his hometown of Sapello, New Mexico—a small, rural community hundreds of miles from any ocean. Through vividly textured poems that confront death, poverty, the family disease of addiction, the expectations of masculinity, and the suffocation of a small rural town, Lucero explores what place truly means, where we go when grief leaves us suspended at a "traffic light that won't turn green," and what happens if we pull the key from ignition altogether.

Written with careful attention to both traditional and innovative forms, the collection invites us to follow the speaker—who repeatedly finds himself at the bottom of the sea navigating an impossible terrain where memory, grief, and longing converge—to meditate on the relationships that define us, those we hold close, those that wound us, and those we spend a lifetime trying to understand.

Foreword by Rigoberto González.