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In The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream. This is a book within a book, a memory within a memory, a future within a past, and most urgently—a journey to reclaim the self for what it was and to proclaim what it could be. More about this book >
Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections If I Go Missing; The Book of Wounded Sparrows, which was Longlisted for the National Book Award; and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize. Octavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches literature and creative writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.
(Photo credit: Paris Quintanilla)
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