Isbn: 9780872867475 - invocation to daughters: city lights spotlight no. 16 (city lights spotlight, 16, band 16) (7 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 2018 California Book Award FinalistFeminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.'Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into 'capital, collateral, damaged soul.' However, the women that appear throughout the book are not merely victims; in Reyes's radical cosmology, these womenthese daughtersare rebels, saints, revolutionaries, and torchbearers, 'sharp-tongued, willful.' This book is a call to arms against oppressive languages, systems, and traditions.'Publishers Weekly, starred review'Infused with Spanish and Tagalog, Reyes's beautiful, angry verse shines throughout. For a wide range of readers.'Library Journal, starred review'I cannot shout 'brilliant' loud enough. Start to this finish, Invocation to Daughters is truth. 'I am not your ethnic spectacle. I am not your cultural poverty. You / don't get to frame me.' This is a book you read and teach and live.'Anthony Cody, author ofBorderland ApocryphaInvocation 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, in meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Barbara Jane Reyes unleashes the colonized tongue in a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity.Praise for Invocation to Daughters:'Against violence against women, Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs, jumping off Audre Lorde's 'the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house,' Invocation to Daughters recombines registersprayers, pleas and elegybraiding a trilingual triple-threat, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street, utterance with erasure, the prose sentence with the liminal. Invocation to Daughters reminds me of the 70's in the East Bay, when Jessica Hagedorn met Ntozake Shange and ignited a green flash seen from horizon to horizon. Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area's incendiary voices.'Sesshu Foster, author of ELADATL'Invocation to Daughters is a space for multitudes, a hypnotic collection that draws from family historyparticularly the complex cultural gendered dynamic between father and daughterin order to create a manual for emancipation from the interior and exterior binds that keep us from ourselves. Through prayers, calls to actions, and testimonies, Reyes invents 'a language so that we know ourselves, so that we may sing, and tell, and pray.''Carmen Giménez Smith, author of Be Recorder and Cruel Futures. …

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. &Uumlber den AutorBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of Invocation to Daughters (City Lights Spotlight Series, 2017). She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of f.