Letters to a Young Brown Girl
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- 3 uur lezen
Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.
Barbara Jane Reyes Boeken
Deze auteur onderzoekt complexe identiteiten en cultureel erfgoed via poëzie en proza. Haar werken duiken met een unieke gevoeligheid in thema's als liefde, gemeenschap en persoonlijke transformatie. De auteur put vaak uit mythologie en folklore om hedendaagse menselijke ervaringen te belichten. Haar schrijven is zowel intiem als universeel, en resoneert met lezers die op zoek zijn naar een dieper begrip van zichzelf en de wereld.
Wanna Peek Into My Notebook?: Notes on Pinay Liminality
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- 6 uur lezen
A collection of lyric essays / creative non-fiction about growing up into and practicing Pinay poetry/poetics, as a young immigrant and daughter of hustling immigrants, woman of color writer, educator and mentor
Invocation to Daughters
- 74bladzijden
- 3 uur lezen
"Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet"-- "The fifth collection from Oakland poet Barbara Jane Reyes, in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Invocation to Daughters is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish, Reyes unleashes this colonized tongue against sexualized and racialized violence towards Pinay women. With its meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Invocation to Daughters is a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity"--