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"The prose poems in YOU scour the distance between girlhood and motherhood with wit, fraying into ruminations on all that's inherited as a woman surviving gendered violence. Rosa Alcalâa choreographs language to understand the body as it "gathers itself over time to become whole," recovering the speaker's intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches, anxieties, and lessons of feminine survival. YOU ruminates on daughterhood, mothering, and the body's cumulative wisdom"--
About the author
Rosa Alcalá has published three previous books of poetry, most recently
MyOTHER TONGUE. She has been awarded fellowships and grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Harvard's Woodberry Poetry Room, Yaddo, MacDowell, Fundación Valparaíso, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her translation and editorial work include
New & Selected Poems of Cecilia Vicuña and
Spit Temple: The Selected Performances of Cecilia Vicuña, runner-up for the 2012 PEN Translation Award. Her poems and translations have appeared in
Harper's,
The Nation,
Poetry, and
Best American Poetry, among other publications. She is the De Wetter Endowed Chair in Poetry at the University of Texas at El Paso's Bilingual MFA in Creative Writing Program.
Summary
From the author of MyOTHER TONGUE comes a new collection of prose poetry exploring the intergenerational inheritance of gendered violence.
Rosa Alcalá choreographs language to understand the body as it “gathers itself over time to become whole,” recovering the speaker’s intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches, anxieties, and lessons of a woman's survival. Ruminating on daughterhood, mothering, and the body's cumulative wisdom, YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present.
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