​"Getting Stitches" is Rudy Francisco's first chapbook. It consists of 16 poems. The collection is an exploration of human experience. It's a journey of introspection, acknowledgement and growth. It is both laughter and heartbreak, honesty and sarcasm, faith and questions. It's confident, awkward and everything in between. It's falling apart, being stitched up and hoping the wounds heal properly.



Contents:

1. Skeleton
2. A Few Things I believe
3. A Letter to the Apocalypse
4. The Body
5. Definitions
6. Like Every Other Man
7. I Thought You Only Dated White Girls?
8. A Lot Like You
9. Turning Tables
10. How to Look Like a Stalker
11. My Honest Poem
12. Tuesday
13. Poem for Ashley
14. Monster
15. For Troy Davis
16. To the Graduating Class of UC San Diego






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