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American Quasar
By David Campos and Maceo Montoya
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A VISUAL-TEXTUAL COLLABORATION: explores personal and political trauma, the emotional craters left by family, and the ways in which one learns to love not only as son, brother, student, or lover, but from the space one occupies as "citizen.”
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David Campos
David Campos lives in Fresno, California, where he teaches English at Fresno City College. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Boxcar Poetry Review, Huizache, The Packinghouse Review, Verdad, and Miramar, among other journals and magazines.
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