For a Second I Was Years Ago, by Juanita Fama Candelaria

Prose poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

For A Second I Was Years Ago is a collection of hybrid poems and vignettes accumulated over the author’s 20s. What is the most important and preoccupying theme is the longing for connection– to people, to the world– and the complications that come with finding it.

And of course, there’s romantic yearning! And there’s going to the movies! And being at the beach! Swimming! Meditations on life and our confusing role in it! Feeling self-conscious every time you speak! Oh, youth.

Juanita Fama Candelaria is a writer from the suburbs of Southern California. She graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Creative Writing. She currently works at a non-profit movie theater in New York City. For A Second I Was Years Ago is her first chapbook.