Don't Let Me Die in Disneyland
by J.A. Marzán
J.A. Marzán, a graduate of Fordham U., (B.A.), Columbia U. (M.F.A), and New York U. (Ph.D.), was Poet Laureate of Queens, N.Y. from 2004-2007. His novel, The Bonjour Gene, was a University of Wisconsin Press submission to the 2004 Pulitzer Prize.
“Marzán displays the wit and intellectual verve rarely seen in contemporary literature."—Pulitzer Prize winner Oscar Hijuelos.
Nonfiction credits include: The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams, (U. Texas Press). Poetry credits include: Translations without Originals (English) and Puerta de Tierra (Spanish). Poems in English appear in several editions of various college texts, among them The Bedford Introduction to Literature, Latino Boom, and Literature: Reading to Write and in distinguished journals, among them Ploughshares, Tin House, and Harper's Magazine. A profile of him was published in the fall 2009 issue of Columbia Magazine.
J.A. Marzán makes his home in Queens, New York.
J.A. Marzán
Don't Let Me Die in Disneyland
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