Alejandro Escude Poetry and Fiction

Alejandro Escude Poetry and FictionAlejandro Escude Poetry and FictionAlejandro Escude Poetry and Fiction

Alejandro Escude Poetry and Fiction

Alejandro Escude Poetry and FictionAlejandro Escude Poetry and FictionAlejandro Escude Poetry and Fiction
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Author Bio

Alejandro Escudé’s first book of poems, "My Earthbound Eye," was published in September 2013 upon winning the 2012 Sacramento Poetry Center Award. He received a master’s degree in creative writing from UC Davis, where he was taught by such notable poets as Gary Snyder and Sandra McPherson. Alejandro works as an English teacher, having taught in a variety of school systems at the secondary level for over fifteen years. Originally from Córdoba, Argentina, he immigrated to California many years ago at the age of six. A new book, “The Book of the Unclaimed Dead,” published by Main Street Rag Press, is now available on the MSR website. Alejandro is a single dad of two wonderful kids and lives in Los Angeles with his dog, a feisty yet lovable Jack Russell named Jake.


Artistic Statement

I am a proudly anti-academia writer, so I don't write PhD dissertations masquerading as poetry or fiction. If you combine Hemingway, Williams, Ashbery, Plath, and Bukowski, you would get close to my aesthetic. I am often inspired by current events, but I also write about family, my city (Los Angeles), and the more subtle hypocrisies evident in Western society and the human race as a whole. You might see a trace misanthropy in my work, but it's not as pessimistic as it reads; I'm an unfiltered writer, so I do exaggerate for effect at times. Writing is a habit that helps me cope with life, and its been a habit since I was about fourteen, though I do believe that highly sensitive people (a personality type I identify with strongly) understand themselves to be artists before they are even able to write.  

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