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A debut poetry collection that draws on the music and culture of flamenco to explorediasporic experience. InSeguiriyas(or ""song form"") of the same name-Ben Meyerson picks paths through the reverberations of diaspora, displacement, and transit. Meyerson's poems travel between his upbringing in an Ashkenazi Jewish family in Toronto and his time spent plumbing thehistorical tensionsthat animate Andalusian culture. Within diaspora and dispersion, Meyerson assembles an array of reference points ranging from the history of the Roma in Spain,flamenco performance, medieval Iberian poetry, rock music, and the echoes of Jewish ritual practice.Seguiriyasdoes not seek to neatly arrange the pluralities that it observes; rather, it moves intheirwake, offering a form of careful attention and vibrant song.

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“Seguiriyas’s magnificent lyricism and philosophy of self and history rests on this poet’s deep experience of Spain and knowledge of its rich past of splendid meetings, brutal divorces, brilliant and tragic memories, profound and troubling idealizations, marvelous traditions of song and poetry. Equally, the collection rises from the poet’s life—our own lives—in this world of ours, here today, this latest layer of inscription on an oft-captured-and-carved-over stone. The poems in their immediate appeal—emotion, vividly inventive description, plangent eloquence, moving simplicity, phrase-making, and image-making power—contain a network of connections adequate to the web of history itself and to the dialogic relationship of each human person to history through their place. Seguiriyas is a book of depth, wide-eyed mourning, and the dream: ‘If still it is not revealed— // wait. // The voice will fill you, find you.’”—A.F. Moritz

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Ben Meyerson is the author of four poetry chapbooks: In a Past Life, Holcocene, An Ecology of the Void, and Near Enough. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota and an MA in philosophy from the Universidad de Sevilla. He is currently a PhD candidate in comparative literature at the University of Toronto and splits his time between Canada and Spain. His poems, translations and essays have appeared in several journals, including Interim, PANK, Long Poem Magazine, El Mundo Obrero, Great River Review, The Inflectionist Review, Rust+Moth, and Pidgeonholes.

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