Psaltery and Serpentines

by Cecilia Martinez-Gil

Overview

Winner of the 2009 Gival Press Poetry Award.
Runner Up for the 2010 Los Angeles Book Festival Award for Poetry.

"...This is a luscious and lustrous collection of poems, a delightful first book from a poet who demonstrates convincingly here both the gravity and the joy of her calling." -Gail Wronsky, author of Dying for Beauty

"Opening this book to any of its poems will sweep the imagination into the poet's creation, and its reviewer's lips will burn for hundreds of kisses."-Rich Murphy, author of Voyeur and judge for the 2009 Gival Press Poetry Award

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012583307
Publisher:	Gival Press
Publication date:	05/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	114
File size:	406 KB

About the Author

Cecilia Martínez-Gil has published in Voices: A Santa Monica Women?s College Publication, Anthology of Latin American Writers in Los Angeles, and Imaginarias: Antología de Poesía (Ediciones de la Crítica, Montevideo, Uruguay). She translated and adapted from Spanish to English the critically acclaimed book Escape de Punta Carretas: LA FUGA by Eleuterio Fernández Huidobro, for a film project in 1999. She also cowrote and played the lead character in the awardwinning experimental video Itinerarios, directed by Roberto Mascaró. A graduate of both USC and UCLA, she is currently pursuing a master?s degree in English and creative writing at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Originally from Montevideo, Uruguay, she now lives in Santa Monica, California.