Poetry. California Interest. Latino/Latina Studies. Freddy Gutierrez's 2015 collection of poetry. "Our people need new prayers from our first tongues. NUEVA CUENTA shows that a soul in its lucid wandering is both the presentation of mathematical brilliance and visceral mystery; that the poet is the incarnation in a circle of instructors who crafts reminders that origin is future and every line of our story is food for beauty and resistance. Here is a song to take with you on our fight for liberation; to take with us on all of our returns to earth and essence. Be fit for the run...rise en masse."—Tongo Eisen-Martin, author of SOMEONE'S DEAD ALREADY (Bootstrap Press, 2015) "In Freddy Gutierrez's poetry, language skips and repeats like the past, in all its disastrous beauty, in order to sing a new future into being. He sings for himself and always others. In NUEVA CUENTA, a song of the land emerges, the story of European arrivals and indigenous resistance, the particularity of plants, the pain of history, the possibility of recovery, and the dream of a world that could be otherwise."—Stephanie Young, author of URSULA OR UNIVERSITY (Krupskaya, 2013)

Nueva Cuenta

Literature & Fiction

Gutierrez, Freddy

Poetry

Nomadic

Poetry. Drama. California Interest. African & African American Studies. Love is alive in White's eight poems and poetic drama that call on the feminine presence, through ancestral memory and legacy, to heal a broken heart.  "[Arisa White] is a fierceless and tender poet who always brings into view what's strange and unusual and critical for our survival. Her poems consider what it requires to meditate and meet what's unknown without flinching."—Dara Wier  "In this book, feelings are imperative, as is an imperative depth of self awareness, one that brings the reader to the edge. These stakes are no small stakes. Demanding, you need to let down your terror and There is no peace in running the truth of you, Arisa White builds a world where one must go to the edge in order to connect with one's own body and the bodies of others. One must speak in—and through—dislocation. The voices in this book seek always to locate themselves, and seem deeply committed to a life of dis/location. Across this island body I toss salt, she writes, I will not resemble trees and their reaching, and tosses us into forms poetic and dramatic, tosses us with her through relationship, earth, plant-life, race, police violence, history, identity and queerness, her language equally tossing amongst itself and its contexts, searching, pressing for what is true."—Leora Fridman, author of My Fault "History, memory, absence: how can we listen to the silenced names, the silencing betrayal of power, and the silence before it breaks? BLACK PEARL takes a searing, fearless look into the violence on the heart and construct of identity, and pushes "into the touch of things" to feel "our names inside" the rooted will that endures, the will that remembers, the will that loves.  Arisa White writes a kind of heroic resistance that sings contrapuntally, we do not forget intertwined histories and perspectives that are at the heart of a reign of brutality, we sing into the future the litany of dead names. We are led compassionately and fiercely, to organize a cosmological we."—Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

black pearl: eight poems and a poetic drama

White, Arisa Alana

Dramas & Plays

Fiction. Asian &amp; Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. Frazier's stories, in seamless prose, examine the myriad ways in which we soothe ourselves in an attempt to treat what ails us—for better or for worse "These intimate, gutsy, heartbreaking stories—stories about having bodies and having histories, having desire and having had desire—left me pleasantly shaken, cured of some psychic ailment I hadn't known I was afflicted with. This book is full of secrets, frank revelations, brutal honesties and tenderness; hard-won emotional truths and the bittersweet understanding that our primary relationship is with our self."—Michelle Tea "Harsh and beautiful, yearning and deadly, the stories of Soma Mei Sheng Frazier will remind you of nothing less than the whole wide world."—Daniel Handler, AKA Lemony Snicket "Brilliant is a word usually associated with diamonds; therefore, this is the appropriate word for Soma Mei Sheng Frazier, who writes like a young Toni Morrison: clear, clean, yet heart skipping for all the things she is not telling. Crisp. Deliciously enticing as the story unfolds. Soma is a wonderful writer on the rise. Perhaps I should have started this story with the first star of evening, visible to our planet but harking of another shore, lighting our sky. We walk the beach with her. And the tide pulls the diamonds to our hands.—Nikki Giovanni

Salve

Frazier, Soma Mei

United States

Poetry. California Interest. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. MOTHERMORPHOSIS is an exploration of the sublime terrain of mother. Poems situate the reader in the conflict between the idea and reality of what mother is in love, loss, sanity, and motherland. "The extraordinary poems in MOTHERMORPHOSIS place readers in the particular life of a daughter and her schizophrenic mother; however, a larger world, full of war and tenderness, misunderstanding and clarity, vulnerability and empowerment, our world, is present, too, so the book speaks with great urgency for all and to all of us."—Blas Falconer, author of A Question of Gravity and Light (2007) "Chavez, despite the darkness of her subject matter, is a good enough poet, a powerful enough voice, to make the reader sometimes forget how harrowing these works really are... Ms Chavez has, more than other poet I've read in recent memory, made a real case for the validity of poetry in the 21st century. Her words sing. They scream."—John Sweet, winner of the first Lummox Poetry Prize, 2014 "I have found over the years there are poets that influence. Poets that spark something we may not even be aware of and poets you go back to because you can't get enough. MK Chavez is all three of these."—Scot Young "It is in the adornment of Chavez's dictions that—to paraphrase Chimamanda Adichie's magnificent speech 'The Danger of a Single Story'—a sort of restoration, or reconciliation, might occur."—Elizabeth Treadwell "In a world of oversharing, MOTHERMORPHOSIS, by MK Chavez, is even more impactful due to its relentless restraint. These meticulously crafted poems bear witness to the shipwreck that can be a brown girl's childhood, especially with a US-backed Salvadoran civil war, shaming Catholic patriarchs, a mother with mental illness, and unforgiving streets. Yet, she masterfully tells these stories, not with a rapid spilling, but with the measured assurance of having digested the perilous escape—literally, what has not killed her has made her strong. A stunning collection."—Aya de Leon

Mothermorphosis

Chavez, MK

Poetry. Women's Studies. DEAR ANIMAL, is a re-imagination of the Linnaean taxonomy from a feminist perspective. This collection is a love letter to the resilient feral female and an exploration of the myriad Animalia that dwell in the margins.

Dear Animal,

Poetry. Women's Studies. Film Studies. Via two alternating voices—interior (observed) and narrative (observer)—that speak to one another, the striking, image–rich poems in SCORE AND BONE's two sections delve into the subjects of film and perception, body and memory, and lead the reader through a visceral cinematic landscape.

Score and Bone

Win, Maw Shein

Fiction. California Interest. Latino/Latina Studies. LOW VILLAGE explores the symbiotic relationship between dominant and submissive personalities: fathers and sons, hustlers and hoes, hunters and their human prey—characters consumed by ambition and wracked with guilt.

Low Village

Rodriguez, Daniel Riddle

Poetry. California Interest. African &amp; African American Studies. Latino/Latina Studies. PROFETA WITHOUT REFUGE engages in poetic experimentation through the writing of an Afrocentric and womanist creation myth in resistance to state-sanctioned violence against Black and brown peoples. The book includes poems in the voices of three characters: the creator goddess of a Black immortal people; her human daughter who carries the vivid memories of generational trauma and joy; and the poet who serves as witness to reality and creator of the surreal as survival mechanism in our tumultuous times.

Profeta Without Refuge

n, Raina J

Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. SEAHORSE follows the poet as she navigates the terrain between male and female. The reader follows on her harsh and rocky journey from the you of her youth to the "I" of her realized Self. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, this transpoetic personal odyssey can be appreciated by men, women and those intrepid souls who inhabit the places between.

Seahorse

Dennerstein, Natasha

Literary Nonfiction. California Interest. Latino/Latina Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. There's really no literal translation of "Quiéreme;" it's in between "like me" and "love me" but, unlike in English, the verb does all the work—it's all in one word: a command packed with feeling; a want; a little ball full of longing. And that's basically what this book is: a little thing full of longing (and essays). In Spanglish. From loving imaginary people in Catholic school, to waiting for a lover's tears at the airport, to documenting post-breakup grief, Quiéreme is a call on all the lingering ghosts of loving.

Quiereme

Biographies & Memoirs

Lopera, Juli

Community & Culture

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