Controlled Decay

"Remarkable. . . . Gabriela Jauregui displays perfect pitch: Her lyrics are impressive in their scope, range, empathy--and especially their authentic passion."--Marjorie Perloff, author of 21st-Century Modernism

Gabriela Jauregui was born in Mexico City. Her work has been published in Mexico, the United States, and Europe. She is a Paul and Daisy Soros New American Fellow and a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California.


Author: Gabriela Jauregui
Publisher: Akashic Books
Published: 06/01/2008
Pages: 100
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.11w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781933354521
ISBN10: 1933354526
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American
- Travel | Mexico
- Poetry | Women Authors

About the Author
Gabriela Jauregui (b. 1979) was born and raised in Mexico City. Her work has been published in magazines, journals, and anthologies in Mexico, the U.S., and Europe. She graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside and holds an MA in English and Comparative Literature from the University of California, Irvine. Chris Abani, curator of Akashic's Black Goat poetry imprint, is a Nigerian poet and novelist and the author of Song for Night, The Virgin of Flames, Becoming Abigail, and GraceLand (a selection of the Today Show Book Club; winner of the 2005 PEN/Hemingway Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award).