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<br />Sandy Florianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09165292190620145174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21345627.post-18252329645484448362013-03-22T11:16:00.002-06:002013-09-07T08:21:37.486-06:00AM I LATINA? OR AM I JUST ANGRY?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sandy Florianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09165292190620145174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21345627.post-614942940875668012013-03-18T06:27:00.000-06:002013-09-07T08:21:46.436-06:00NOT A JOKE - UNDERACADEMY COLLEGE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sandy Florianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09165292190620145174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21345627.post-74296296729397477012013-02-20T19:26:00.000-07:002013-09-07T08:21:59.406-06:00MY NEXT BIG THING<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i><a href="http://www.noemipress.org/florian.html" target="_blank">Boxing the Compass</a></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>Ulysses</i>. I wanted to give voice to Milly Bloom who never had the brother that was born her sibling. I was also interested in the unnamed corpse that washed on the shore and haunts the text throughout. All that got conflated with my urgent concern for global warming. Several versions later, I ended up with a book that's more like a flood than an ode to the modernist tome.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0735442/" target="_blank">Michelle Rodriguez</a> for the main role. A baker for another. A postman for another. An old, bent woman for another, someone too old to be an actress, too bent to have a face.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">A woman lost at sea journeys to visit her mother's grave.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Nightmares of floods, hurricanes, environmental catastrophes. And the Bermuda Triangle. Shifting poles. The islands of Puerto Rico. Sailors who are lost and tossed. Others who are turned to cannibals. Cannonballs strewn across the ocean floor. And finally, my interest in a saturation of language that illuminates its total inadequacy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">It took me 12 years to write rightly, and I consider it, probably more than any other book I've written, a book that's totally mine.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">It's forthcoming with <a href="http://www.noemipress.org/" target="_blank">Noemi Press</a> and supported generously by <a href="http://latinostudies.nd.edu/letras/" target="_blank">Letras Latinas</a>. To both, I am eternally grateful.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">Thanks to <a href="http://lisapasold.com/" target="_blank">Lisa Pasold</a> for tagging me! I'm tagging <a href="http://talanmemmott.com/" target="_blank">Talan Memmott</a>, <a href="http://www.english.lsu.edu/English_People/item21438.html" target="_blank">Lara Glenum</a>, <a href="http://staceylevine.com/" target="_blank">Stacey Levine</a>, <a href="http://daniellepafunda.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Danielle Pafunda</a>, and <a href="http://carmengimenezsmith.com/" target="_blank">Carmen Gimenez Smith</a>.</span></span></div>
Sandy Florianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09165292190620145174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21345627.post-92183075639808577002012-09-09T18:56:00.000-06:002013-09-07T08:22:16.334-06:00AN EXCERPT FROM THE CHAIR<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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