Don’t miss this special Wildfire Reading Series with Icess Fernandez Rojas, author of The Opposite of Breathing is Cement!

Saturday, September 28th, 5pm at Red Salmon Arts/Resistencia Books, 2000 Thrasher Ln., Austin, TX 78741

Reading, Conversation, Book Signing

Light refreshments.

FREE RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/1016871779867?aff=oddtdtcreator

Breathtaking in every form, The Opposite of Breathing is Cement is an ode to healing by exposing long-held wounds to the light in hopes that something fruitful is created.

Icess Fernandez Rojas’ debut collection dribbles between political arches, cultural identity, love, and mental illness where in dark corners of the mind exists a brave flicker from a candle. That light is more than hope, it’s the start of something new. “We yell our whispers and /save subtlety for our art” in “Forgetting Cuba;” in “My Mothers,” Rojas asks to “Recall baptism in clear waters, salted by Earth and divine prayers / slapped awake by rolling waves.”