Boxing The Compass

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Bio

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Of Colombian and Puerto Rican decent, I was born in New York and raised in Latin America. I am the author of 4 books and a chapbook: Telescope (Action Books), 32 Pedals & 47 Stops (a chapbook with Tarpaulin Sky Press), The Tree of No (Action Books), On Wonderland & Waste (forthcoming with Sidebrow Press), and Prelude to Air From Water (forthcoming with Elixir Press). I hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Brown University, a PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of Denver, and I've been awarded residencies at Caldera Arts, Stonehouse, and the Vermont Studio Center. I have also been awarded Elixir's Editor's Prize, New Voices' Sudden Fiction Prize, and Brown University's Francis Mason Harris Award for best book written by a woman. One of my circulating manuscripts came in semi-finalist for the Ahsahta Sawtooth Poetry Prize. I currently live in San Francisco and am an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts.

THE TREE OF NO

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THE TREE OF NO

is now available through Action Books - http://www.actionbooks.org

Art and design by Gent Sturgeon and Tia Resleure.

"As slyly humorous as it is sublimely poetical, Florian’s experimental novel riffs on Biblical stories from Genesis to Revelations to trace the career of a narrator who, unhesitant 'to taste the waste,' ventures forth from Eden to pursue meditations on imagination, quirky civic projects, and an odd love affair with the enigmatic Montgomery, all the while struggling toward a resolute affirmation of the earthbound self." Robert Savino Oventile

"'Beastly I fall at Adam under the shade.' Sandy Florian's second book dilates under Milton's Forbidden Tree, plumbing God's unjustifiable ways, and Man's. In a world made from scratch, eros and artifice, thanatos and theology give off mixed and exquisite signals, here buckled in Florian's bejeweled and rigorous sentences: 'words like chords like emerald snakes, words like lords like humble smoke.' Florian's intellect blazes in this bold, ambitious work: 'I have a war with history.'" from the publishers

Excerpts from the The Tree of No appear in bird dog, /nor, Tarpaulin Sky, Gulf Coast, Upstairs at Duroc, Octopus, A_Handsome Journal, and Fairy Tale Review.

Reviews

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A new review in Kenyon Review blog -

And another on Ross Brighton's blog -

Here's one in Jacket Magazine -

And viewable reviews at The Home Video Review of Books and delrious hem -

Telescope

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Telescope is available here.

A new review of it at The Latino Poetry Review.

Other reviews of at diagram, reviews reviews reviews, no no yes no yes, and coldfront.

An interview by Francisco Aragón for the Institute of Latino Studies.

32 Pedals & 47 Stops

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Sold out from Tarpaulin Sky Press.

Read reviews of it at Octopus Magazine and h_ngm_n.