Wholesale Pre-Order: Glassful of Prayer by Anthony Ceballos

It is rare to open a book that makes you feel more alive. Anthony Ceballos uses language with passion and precision to conjure a world marked by tenderness. In his quest to resolve our common sorrows, and his own, Ceballos resists the temptations of oblivion with a fierce insistence on clarity and love. - Louise Erdrich Glassful of Prayer is a book made equally of fiery longing and cool defiance. There are elegies, sacrifices, nightmares, dreams, visions, and prayers for memory, recognition, and wholeness that are stitched with painstaking care, word by word. The protagonists speak exquisitely from hungry, holy places—where the eros of the body sometimes meets its propensity for violence, shocked by the sweet taste honey taste the petal delicate / between your teeth i am torn to god. Readers will fall in love with this restless, sensuous voice, a wise and aching chronicler of "broken hallelujahs."