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Cecilia Llompart

Born

in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

October 01, 1985

Website

https://labelleviedececi.substack.com

Twitter

ceciliallompart

Genre

Poetry, Memoir, Nonfiction

Influences

Anne Sexton, Charles Wright, Diane di Prima, Federico García Lorca, Ga ...more

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Cecilia Llompart is the author of The Wingless (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014).

Her book-length poem "Wild Vespers" was a finalist for the Rick Campbell chapbook prize from Anhinga Press in 2020, a semi-finalist for the Black Lawrence Press Chapbook Competition in Fall 2017, and a finalist for the Tomaž Šalamun Prize from Verse Journal in 2016. The recipient of a Poe / Faulkner scholarship at the University of Virginia, she has also been awarded a fellowship from The Dickinson House, and was named one of two finalists for The Field Office Agency’s Postcard Prize in poetry, as well as one of ten winners in Neat Streets Miami “Growing Green Bus Stop” Haiku Contest. ...more

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Cecilia Llompart's Blog

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Pierrot's Daughter

“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.” ~ Malcolm X

If you had told me—any number of years ago—that I would someday get a clown measuring 6-by-4 inches tattooed on myself & covering the majority of my left thigh… I would have laughed in your face. Yet if you had shown me the clown—with her vintage suit decked in big hearts, & wavy black locks

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Cecilia Llompart’s books

Average rating: 4.38 · 119 ratings · 17 reviews · 3 distinct works

	The Wingless 4.52 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology by Melissa Tuckey (Editor), Camille T. Dungy (Foreword), Zein El-Amine (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 36 ratings — published 2018	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arcana: the Tarot Poetry Anthology by Marjorie Jensen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mary K. Greer (Introducer), Rachel Pollack (Contributor) 4.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Cecilia Llompart (?)

“If Springtime crawls out of the

wild mouths of flowers, then
surely, Winter crawls out of mine.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

tags: flowers, poetry, seasons, spring, wild, winter

61 likes

“I know my breasts, small
as plums, would win no blue ribbons.

But in your hands they tremble and fill
with song like plump, white birds.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

tags: birds, breasts, hands, lovers, poetry, song

10 likes

“Darkness moves like a pack of wild dogs.
The wind moves like a wounded animal.
The ground must be full of teeth by now.”
― Cecilia Llompart, The Wingless

tags: darkness, dogs, poetry, wind, wound

6 likes

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