“La Belle Ajar, from CLASH Books, is superb, a flight into an ethereal sphere where Adrian Ernesto Cepeda's words dance and the sublime cadence of Adrian Ernesto's imagination keeps beat with the chorus of angels!” — Jimmy Santiago Baca, winner of the Pushcart Prize, the American Book Award, and the International Hispanic Heritage Award, author of the memoir, A Place to Stand “Adrian Ernesto Cepeda’s sensual, electric internal rhythms provoke external, communal ones too. And La Belle Ajar is not just an exercise in homage but a choreographed remix, a translation, a correspondence between words and worlds. Cepeda leaves the door open, in pursuit of readerly access and inspiration. This work vibrates.” — Chris Campanioni, Editor PANK Magazine and author of The Internet is for Real

Adrian Ernesto Cepeda is the author of the full-length poetry collection Flashes & Verses… Becoming Attractions from Unso‐ licited Press, the poetry chapbook So Many Flowers, So Little Time from Red Mare Press, Between the Spine published with Picture Show Press. Adrian is an LA Poet who has a BA from the University of Texas at San Antonio and he is also a graduate of the MFA program at Antioch University in LA where he lives with his lovely wife.