
14
Antologia del Sonoran
Christopher Bogart(Author)
Shawn Aveningo Sanders(Editor)
Poetry Box (Publisher)
Published on 15. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
40 pages
978-1-948461-15-3 (ISBN)
Description
A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Selection
Twenty-six Mexican migrants were discovered in the Sonoran desert near Yuma, Arizona. Twelve of them were wandering around the desert, delirious and dying of thirst. Fourteen were taken by pickup truck to the morgue. The deceased became known as the "Yuma 14." These poems tell their story.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight
65 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-948461-15-3 (9781948461153)
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Christopher Bogart is a retired educator and a working poet and writer with an MA in Creative Writing from Monmouth University. He began his MFA at Monmouth University in the fall of 2019.His poetry has been published in Voices Rising from the Grove, Spindrift, WestWard Quarterly, Saggio Poetry Journal, The Monmouth Review (2013 and 2014), Mind Murals (2013), Whirlwind Review (Fall 2014), The Howl of Sorrow, a Collection of Poetry Inspired by Hurricane Sandy, This Broken Shore (Summer 2015. 2018), Jersey Shore Poets/First Edition, as well as various online sites.
In 2015, he was chosen as First Runner Up for Monmouth University's inaugural The Joyce Carol Oates Award for Excellence in Fiction, Poetry, and Creative Non-Fiction. In 2017, he was chosen as one of two finalists for The Brian Turner Literary Prize for Fiction. His chapbook about the Yuma 14, entitled 14: Antología del Sonoran, was awarded The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize (3rd Place) and published in October, 2018 by The Poetry Box. One of the poems in the collection, "Abraham Morales Hernandez," was nominated for a Pushcart Prize for 2018.
He is presently writing poetry and short stories, translating the poetry of Federico Garcia Lorca and Arthur Rimbaud into English, and is working on his first novel, tentatively titled The Beast, about the plight of two Honduran teenage migrants who flee poverty and crime of Central America in search of a better life in the United States of America.