God of the Air Hose and Other Blue-Collar Poems

<p class=ql-align-justify>Ceasar K. Avelar swings a Central American hammer in poems that sing the working life while also decrying the gaps and empties. He's a powerful voice from the Central American migrant stream essential to the 'essential workers' risking life and family to keep economies going even in pandemics.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>​</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>-Luis J. Rodriguez former Los Angeles' Poet Laureate author of Borrowed Bones: New Poems from the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>​</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>When the particles settle Cesar K. Avelar will go down as one of the greatest working-class poets of our time.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>​</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>-William A. Gonzalez award winning author of Black Bubblegum</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>​</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Ceasar Avelar writes for the people in the trenches for the marginalized for those who sometimes feel as though they have no voice. The power of his words jump from the page. He is not writing to impress he is writing to inspire.</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>​</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>-Jeffery Martin author of Ripples Shadows & Huddled Scraps</p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>​</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify>Ceasar K. Avelar's poetry is exquisite fierce and courageous. A harrowing denunciation of the exploitation endured by today's immigrant factory workers but more importantly a testament of the worker's indomitable spirit to subvert their dehumanization while dreaming and asserting the possibility of a life of respect and hope.</p><p class=ql-align-justify> </p><p class=ql-align-justify>-Angelina Sáenz Author of Edgecliff</p><p><br></p>