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Song for America
Paperback
Publisher Price: $17.50
ISBN13: 9781966075103
Publisher: Gnashing Teeth Publishing
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 194
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.41 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Fernando Esteban Flores's Song for America is a poetry collection that moves like a current beneath the skin-quiet at times, but always carrying the force of memory and the weight of witness. These poems are built from lived experience, cultural inheritance, and an unwavering ear tuned to the music of resistance.
Flores writes with a voice that is both rooted and restless, drawing from landscapes shaped by migration, survival, and song. He doesn't offer easy metaphors or polished conclusions-instead, he offers a language that aches, dances, and burns. The rhythm of these poems is not ornamental; it is elemental, echoing with footsteps, heartbeats, and histories that refuse to be erased.
From the intimate spaces of personal reckoning to the wider canvas of national identity, Song for America invites us into a soundscape where poetry becomes a form of listening-deep, difficult, and necessary. The collection is steeped in the textures of place, memory, and myth, yet always alive with the immediacy of now.
This is a book for those who know that language carries not just stories, but scars. It sings with the sweat of labor, the breath of ancestors, and the fire of truth-telling. In a time when silence can be dangerous, Flores gives us a voice that dares to rise.
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