Moon as Salted Lemon

<h3 class=ql-align-center><strong>Clayre Benzadón's award-winning debut full-length poetry collection <em>Moon as Salted Lemon </em>is a queering of form and language which interrogates the intersections of Sephardic Jewish American and nonbinary identity. </strong></h3><p class=ql-align-center></p><p>Clayre Benzadón's <strong>multilingual</strong> poetry utilizes <strong>language and formal experimentation</strong> to interrogate the limits of language gender and culture. Benzadón places special focus on the <strong>phenomenological body </strong>and the <strong>somatic practices of poetry.</strong></p><p></p><p>Expansive in its themes <em>Moon as Salted Lemon </em>explores <strong>sex the queer body popular culture history</strong> and <strong>Sephardic Jewish identity</strong> using both personal experience and <strong>expansive historical research </strong>which transforms a section of the book into <strong>documentary poetics </strong>of the history of Jewish people in Spain.  </p><p></p><p>Overall this book is about the <strong>intersections </strong>that exist in the world that perhaps nothing is a binary. <strong>Nonbinary Identity</strong> is in fact the core. </p><p></p><p><em>Moon as Salted Lemon</em> winner of <em>Driftwood Press's </em>Editor's Pick Prize is a tight current and expansive collection which will challenge and inspire poetry readers of all kinds. It is particularly well-suited to those interested in gender experimentation and history. </p>