Fake PiñataIn this debut collection, Ashleah Gonzales cuts open and examines the pieces of a life as they fall. Hands full of rotten oranges, promises to ancestors, lost secrets, empty days in Paristhey begin to add up to an eternity thats entirely mine. These poems sting with tenderness, intimacy, and a longing to find a place that finally feels like home. Ashleah Gonzales is an American writer living in Paris. This is her first book. ROSE BOOKS #003

Lion is the story of a father and a daughter

by using language at full tilt

He personally conceived and carried through public works costing 27 billion dollars—he was undoubtedly America's greatest builder

Wrong decisions are harder to make than most

or hot-grassed summer

and cutthroat

It’s no wonder that in her travels through America in the 1970s she became fascinated with what was then a particularly American institution

I stepped out to behold a crimson-streaked sky that would soon be adorning ten thousand Instagram posts

"We live in a country that has mastered the art of using our brains against us

his fellow hackers are being felled by a weird new drug called Snow Crash that reduces them to nothing more than a jittering cloud of bad digital karma (and IRL

"A revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legacy today

showing me how to use it as 'KILL BRO / KILL COP' repeated in my mind