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6 Lineage Poems is a debut poetry collection rooted in the body and the world. Half the collection is lush and evocative, lingering in both sensuality and sentimentality. The other half sits in stillness and calm. There are poems that embody old lovers while looking forward to new ones, and there are poems that sit back to observe a lake, garden, or the sky. All in all, this collection is a little offering for the altar of poetic lineage, and it calls on poets from Li Bai to Megan Fernandes. “Make of me a song,” Trujillo states and implores. And make of himself a song, he does.

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“[A]n exquisite collection that considers literary, cultural, and familial inheritance. . . . From the opening poem’s cairn that collapses in a shallow lake of the mind to the final poem’s pebble that makes a ripple in the lake of a public garden, this balanced collection deserves to be read and reread slowly, rapturously.”—Carolyn Hembree, contest judge and author of For Today “Fernando Trujillo’s sensuous, romantic poems sing ‘in tears, / in rapture, in love, in ruins.’ Under the sign of Lorca, they consummately balance baroque excess and total intimacy, exploring the delights and agonies of relationships, ancestries, and the erasures of shame—‘a man’s most important work,’ as one poem describes it. The poet of 6 Lineage Poems, as forthright as he is erudite, reaches back into the traditions of literature—from a range of times, places, and languages—in order to make something fresh, vigorous, perfect.”—Richie Hofmann, author of A Hundred Lovers

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Fernando Trujillo is a native of El Paso, TX. His work has appeared with Passages North, The Cortland Review, Michigan Quarterly Review (Goldstein Prize in Poetry), and elsewhere.

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