A stunning debut collection, Anthony Ceballos’ Glassful of Prayer, wrestles with questions of identity against the backdrop of loss, heritage, family ties, addiction, nature, and urban Minneapolis. Ceballos relentlessly delves into the experience of claiming and defining a self with vivid imagery of reflections and nature, and through dreamed or imagined dialogue with an alcoholic father he never knew: “I am not/my father’s boy, I am not/his body, I am not nobody..” In another poem, his grandmother’s spirit asks, “Who? Who do you want to be?” Ceballos connects these themes of negative and positive identity through a single thread prevalent throughout the collection, authenticity, leading us through a landscape of darkness and ash to a place of self-acceptance and love.
Author: Anthony Ceballos
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Trio House Press
Published: 02/01/2026
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d
ISBN: 9781949487534
Language: English
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