Description
Alba and Other Songs by Fred Arroyo was selected by Alexandra Lytton Regalado as winner of the Alta California Chapbook Prize and published in a bilingual edition.
“This lyrical and well-crafted chapbook has the breadth and substance of a full-length collection. Focusing on the said and unsaid, in an imagistic and incantatory style, Fred Arroyo has written an honest yet tender examination of a father-son relationship. Steeped in the nature of his barrio, Arroyo’s poems trace the borders of land and body to tell a story of family, exile, and belonging: “There are no boundaries / save the lines on maps. // There is no time / save the eye of memory.”
-Alexandra Lytton Regalado, Final Judge, Alta California Prize
Fred Arroyo is the author of Sown in Earth: Essays of Memory and Belonging, which was shortlisted for 2021-2022 William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. He is also the author of Western Avenue and Other Fictions and The Region of Lost Names. His writing has appeared in the anthologies Camino del Sol: Fifteen Years of Latina and Latino Writing and The Colors of Nature: Essays on Culture, Identity and the Natural World. Fred’s Alba is from a recently completed manuscript. He’s working on a collection of short fictions, The Book of Manuels.
