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Availability:In StockContributor:Natalie Scenters-ZapicoPublish date:9/30/2025Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:Copper Canyon PressISBN-13:9781556597275ISBN-10:1556597274UPC:9781556597275Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Hispanic & Latino, PlacesSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCRVZZZAYS

My Perfect Cognate

Staggering between English and Spanish, language becomes Scenters-Zapico's mirror, reflecting her body, her family, and the borders that confine them.

My Perfect Cognate interrogates the connections and contrasts at the sharp edges of her in-betweens: violence and softness, motherhood and isolation, the border between the United States and Mexico, where the author and her mother were often...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Copper Canyon PressISBN-13:9781556597275ISBN-10:1556597274UPC:9781556597275Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, Women Authors, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Hispanic & Latino, PlacesSize:8.80 x 5.90 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCRVZZZAYS
Natalie Scenters-Zapico is a fronteriza from El Paso, Texas. Her most recent collection is My Perfect Cognate (Copper Canyon Press Spring/Summer 2025). Winner of Yale University's Windham Campbell Prize, her work has been supported by the Poetry and Lannan Foundations. She teaches in the undergraduate and MFA Creative Writing Programs at the University of South Florida where she is Director of...
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press

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