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© 2022 Aldo Amparan

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About

Aldo Amparán is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), winner of the 2020 Alice James Award. They are the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & CantoMundo.

 

Their work has been widely published in magazines & anthologies, including the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, AGNI, Best New Poets, Gulf Coast, The Journal, Kenyon Review Online, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, & elsewhere.

They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from The University of Texas at El Paso, where they teach as an adjunct professor.

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AVAILABLE SEPTEMBER 2022


PREORDER:

Brother Sleep

Praise for Brother Sleep:

"This book is a beautiful haunting. Formally inventive and alive, Aldo Amparán’s first collection Brother Sleep is essential reading for anyone who’s ever made it through night. The poems again and again seek definition for what can never be defined, living in the liminal space between the poet and memory. Amparán gifts us with a clear and important voice in this queer reckoning with landscape, desire, illness, and touch."

—sam sax, author of madness

“Aldo Amparán’s Brother Sleep is a deep meditation on the loss of a brother, queer love, and surviving violent homophobia on the U.S.-Mexico border. Set in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, and El Paso, Texas the two cities hold the people that populate these poems like a bedroom where all you can do is sleep. Here people are stuck in the nonlinear world of dreams, pain, and mourning. Here people long for and find affection amidst unspeakable violence. Amparán’s vision of the border is stunning, beautifully crafted, and gut-wrenching. One of the most exciting young voices in fronterizx literature writing today." 

—Natalie Scenters-Zapico, author of Lima : Limón

"Aldo Amparán’s Brother Sleep is a wild ride of litanies, odes, elegies, and love poems. Each poem is an example of a poet who’s mastered the craft well enough to retrace steps back to the place where family, nationhood, and exile meet, 'I know Death/Is as fat, tall,/& white/As the edge/Of this page.' This is a beautiful debut."

—Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition

Select Publications

Poems

Poetry Magazine | "The Calling"

The Adroit Journal | "Danger Music" "The Floating Poem" & "The Search"

New England Review | "The House Has Teeth" & "A History"

Southeast Review | "Endings"

Academy of American Poets "Aubade at the City of Change"

The Rumpus | "The Day I Came Out"

Kenyon Review | "Interrogation of the Sodomite

The Journal | "Chronology with Little Deaths

Foundry | "This Room Will Still Exist"

Quarterly West | "Obituaries for the Unnamed"

Washington Square Review | "Sleep, Brother,"

Poetry Northwest | "Glossary for What You Left Unsaid: Concave"

Prose

PANK | "Grain"

Translations

The Offing | Four Poems by Mario Martz

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