Aldo Amparán returns to Alice James Books with The House Has Teeth

 

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Alice James Books welcomes back poet Aldo Amparán for their second collection, The House Has Teeth.

Aldo Amparán’s second AJB poetry collection, The House Has Teeth, is forthcoming from Alice James Books in September 2026. Welcome home, Aldo!

Aldo Amparán is the author of Brother Sleep (Alice James Books, 2022), which won the Alice James Award and was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. They have received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts & CantoMundo. Amparán's work has appeared in the Academy of American Poets' Poem-a-Day, The Georgia Review, New England Review,Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, & elsewhere.

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Aldo Amparán

Winner of the 2020 Alice James Award
A Semifinalist for the 2023 Housatonic Book Award in Poetry
A Finalist for the 2023 Lambda Literary Award in Gay Poetry
One ofThe San Francisco Chronicle’s Favorite Books of 2022
A Rumpus Poetry Book Club Pick for August 2022
Recommended by Book Riot

"This book is a beautiful haunting. Formally inventive and alive, Aldo Amparán’s first collection Brother Sleep is essential reading for anyone who’s ever made it through night. The poems again and again seek definition for what can never be defined, living in the liminal space between the poet and memory. Amparán gifts us with a clear and important voice in this queer reckoning with landscape, desire, illness, and touch.”
—sam sax

September 2022

ISBN: 9781948579278

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"The beautiful strangeness of language and the sobering strangeness of life are braided into lyrical brilliance in Aldo Amparán’s second book. Here, what haunts the speaker and the language itself is so startling, so deftly stapled down, I often found myself spellbound. Here, queerness and borders are sites of refusals and consolations. These poems are undeniable and exquisite."
—Eduardo Corral, author of Guillotine

"'Men instilled in me /an empty. I’ve grown up/ without a body // of my own.' The traumas and vital reclamations of 'Self-Portrait of the Stolen Body' come midway in Amparán’s visceral second collection and its poems full of hauntings, of trauma reflected from the opening loose crown of sonnets filled with closets and candlelit rooms and wounded and severed bodies. ... Amparán depicts the brutalities of the world unmitigated by art."
—Rebecca Morgan Frank, Literary Hub

September 2026
ISBN: 9781967149001

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