
Dream of Xibalba
Stephanie Adams-Santos
(Author)Description
Dream of Xibalba, Stephanie Adams-Santos's incantatory long poem, draws the reader into a dreamworld where the barrier between life and death grows porous, populated by ancestors and spirits. The influence of such poets as Cecilia Vicuña, Federico García Lorca, and Yvan Goll is evident here, yet Adams-Santos's voice and vision are entirely her own. Selected by Jericho Brown as the winner of The 2021 Orison Poetry Prize, Dream of Xibalba is an epic work of cultural and spiritual significance.
Product Details
Publisher | Orison Books |
Publish Date | May 02, 2023 |
Pages | 132 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9781949039382 |
Dimensions | 9.0 X 5.9 X 0.4 inches | 0.5 pounds |
About the Author
Stephanie Adams-Santos's work spans poetry, prose, and screenwriting. She is the author of the full-length poetry collection Swarm Queen's Crown (a Lambda Literary Award finalist), as well as the chapbooks Total Memory and The Sundering (New York Chapbook Fellowship, Poetry Society of America). Her short story "Night Flowers" appeared in the Latinx anthology Speculative Fiction for Dreamers. Adams-Santos has served as Staff Writer and Story Editor on the television anthology horror series Two Sentence Horror Stories (CW/Netflix). Her episode "Elliot" won a 2022 Gold Telly Award in Writing. As an inaugural fellow of The 2022 Ojalá Ignition Fellowship, she developed an original fantasy pilot based on the world and characters of the Tarot. Most recently, she was a fellow of The 2022 Sundance Episodic Lab, developing an animated dystopian sci-fi/fantasy pilot. In addition to her literary work, Adams-Santos is a professional Tarot reader and is making headway on an original Major Arcana tarot deck inspired by occult animism.
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