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Moon as Salted Lemon

Moon as Salted Lemon - Paperback

by Clayre Benzadón
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sara WagnerPublish date:2025-09-30Pages:126
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Driftwood PressISBN-13:9781949065381ISBN-10:1949065383UPC:9781949065381Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, AmericanSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.34Product ID:SC08JAB9PT
Clayre Benzadón's award-winning debut full-length poetry collection, Moon as Salted Lemon, is a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish, American, and nonbinary identity.

Clayre Benzadón's multilingual poetry utilizes language and formal experimentation to interrogate the limits of language, gender, and culture. Benzadón places special focus on the phenomenological body and the somatic practices of poetry.

Expansive in its themes, Moon as Salted Lemon, explores sex, the queer body, popular culture, history, and Sephardic Jewish identity using both personal experience and expansive historical research which transforms a section of the book into documentary poetics of the history of Jewish people in Spain.

Overall, this book is about the intersections that exist in the world, that perhaps nothing is a binary. Nonbinary Identity is, in fact, the core.

Moon as Salted Lemon, winner of Driftwood Press's Editor's Pick Prize, is a tight, current, and expansive collection which will challenge and inspire poetry readers of all kinds. It is particularly well-suited to those interested in gender, experimentation, and history.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Driftwood PressISBN-13:9781949065381ISBN-10:1949065383UPC:9781949065381Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:Women Authors, AmericanSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.30 inchesWeight:0.34Product ID:SC08JAB9PT
Benzadón, Clayre: - Clayre Benzadón (she / they) is a queer (bi /pan) Sephardic (Mizrahi)-Ashkenazi poet, educator (adjunct professor) and activist. Her chapbook, "Liminal Zenith", was published by SurVision Books in 2019. Her manuscript Moon as Salted Lemon was recently named an honorable mention for Miami Book Fair's 2025 Emerging Writer's Fellowship. She has been published in places including Jet Fuel Review, Libre, and SWWIM.Wagner, Sara: - Sara Moore Wagner is the author of three prize winning full length books of poetry, Lady Wing Shot, winner of the 2023 Blue Lynx Prize (2024), Swan Wife (Cider Press Review Editors Prize, 2022), and Hillbilly Madonna (Driftwood Press, 2022), and of two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks, 2022) and Hooked Through (2017). She is also a 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award recipient, a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist, and the recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in many journals and anthologies including Gulf Coast, Smartish Pace, Waxwing, Beloit Poetry Journal, and North American Review, among others. In 2023, she became the Managing Poetry Editor of Driftwood Press.
Publisher: Driftwood Press

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Sara Wagner

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Clayre Benzadón

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