{"product_id":"dusk-dust-9781938235559","title":"Dusk \u0026 Dust","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet along the U.S.-Mexico border,\u003cem\u003e Dusk \u0026amp; Dust\u003c\/em\u003e introduces the voice of a “boy straddled on the valley of two geographies.” With a keen eye, gentle humor, and great empathy, Esteban Rodríguez’s debut collection explores the lives of the generations who have made their homes in a landscape too often neglected and forgotten. Like the region they portray—relentless, unsympathetic, singed with uncertainty—these poems are marked with a visceral beauty. The aroma of cattle mingles with steaming tamales, and carnival organs play behind telenovelas in this richly conjured and mercurial world. Through the eyes of his luchador mask, with a foot planted firmly on either side of the fence, the young speaker grapples with a host of cultural and familial expectations, a tenuous grasp on his family’s language, and his own burgeoning identity. Funny and poignant, \u003cem\u003eDusk \u0026amp; Dust\u003c\/em\u003e lays out a labyrinth of cultural expectations, and, with a voice as clear as it is unique, illuminates a world that seeks to be remembered and lived.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eLA PULGA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue'; min-height: 14px;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eSunday morning strolls along the frontage road \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003elike a censer-swinging priest, scrapes its sunlight \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eagainst the corroded chain-link fence, between \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003ethe lines of traffic overflowing from the entrance, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003ewhere I already taste the scent of wet cilantro, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003egrilled onions, mixed meat, and eggs sizzled in a haze \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eof dust-shuffled heat; in a blanket of black exhaust \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003ecrawling across the pot-hole-riddled parking lot, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eand through the rows of sunburned cars nudging \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eeach other like buzzards on a corpse they’ve yet \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eto eat. I endure my grandfather’s crooked parking, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003ethe constant honking, the backseat acoustics of thin \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003emusic sprinkled in the air, those far-off plastic \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003espeakers blaring songs with unpredictable trumpets, \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 10.5px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Garamond MT Pro'; color: #211d1e;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue';\"\u003eand Spanish \u003cem\u003egritos \u003c\/em\u003eslapped against my English-only ears….\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Esteban Rodríguez","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48284293726459,"sku":"9781938235559","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781938235559.jpg?v=1772488129","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/dusk-dust-9781938235559","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}