Description
Finalist for the 2023 Button Poetry Chapbook Prize, Daniel Elias Galicia’s debut collection, Still Desert sings with histories both haunting and enchanting.
Artistically and linguistically dynamic, Galicia’s poems weave personal and historical narratives of immigration, assimilation, and Mexican heritage. Still Desert lingers in the spaces between borders and crossings, breathing in rich, tactile environments and raw, complex emotions. With a musical rage and a sacred love, Galicia speaks to unsung lineages and the violences found before, during, and after crossing the border.
Praise for Daniel Elias Galicia
Rooted in the desert, where the “river was once / the border” and where the “sun’s a/ rattlesnake” for those migrating from one home to another, these poems not only bear witness but remind readers witnessing is a craft.
– Eduardo C. Corral, Guillotine
These poems leave us thirsty, threatened in our own deserts by what is aggressive and withheld, yet universally understood in our common language of longing.
– Jeanine Hathaway, Long After Lauds
Still Desert knows the wounds of empire. Galicia attunes and shapeshifts to the ancestral knowing of the flora, the fauna, and the landscape itself to transmute border into a portal.
– Anthony Cody, The Rendering
About Daniel Elias Galicia
Daniel Elias Galicia is the son of Chicana/o activists and educators. His poems have appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, Button Poetry, EcoTheo Review, Ruminate Magazine, Iron Horse Literary Review, Relief: A Journal of Art & Faith, and more…. MORE