{ "item_title" : "Variations in Blue", "item_author" : [" Adela Najarro "], "item_description" : "AUTHOR OF 2024 INT'L LATINO BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION, VOLCANIC INTERRUPTIONS - CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL RECOGNIZED ESTABLISHED ARTIST FOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA REGION This poetry collection is heart-led, a feast for the eyes, ears, and soul.--Odilia Galv n Rodr guez - Myths and loss, yearnings and magic--Cristina Garc a The poems in Variations in Blue address the aftermath of domestic violence through the transformative power of language, leading to healing and empowerment via the author's journey into her Latine/x culture. The poems in Variations in Blue cycle through the traumatic residue of dysfunctional relationships, the complexities of Latinx representation through a series of ekphrastic poems, and reimagine Nicaragua as a homeland set in a volcanic landscape. Each section contains a series of poetic variations on a theme, and the poems reverberate and rotate through the indeterminacy of language. Najarro's Variations in Blue insists that the complexities of experience must be understood one version at a time, each distinctly unfolding its unique design.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/1/63/628/274/1636282741_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "17.95", "online_price" : "17.95", "our_price" : "17.95", "club_price" : "17.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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