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S'està carregant… Lessons on Expulsion: Poemsde Erika L. Sánchez
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Erika Sanchez's debut book of poetry Lessons on Expulsion is one of my favorite books I have ever read. Erika's poetry is sexy, dirty, honest, and raw. She does not hold anything back. My favorite poem is the last in the book, a poem titled "Six Months After Contemplating Suicide". Everything about Erika's writing is haunting and breathtaking. ( ) Ama Erika L. Sanchez In "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Marquez wrote that we are birthed by our mothers only once, but life obligates us to give birth to ourselves over and over. I'm sorry, Ama. I know you think only white people leave their families. I undid my braids too early, I know. It started when the blood began to flow, as if something inside me kept unraveling. I packed my bags one night and left without a word. Left like a gypsy, you said. On my way to Tehuantepec, I think about my own birth- my head peeking out from my own vagina. In my hand I hold a bird of paradise that I bought from a boy at a crossing. Ama, I think of you as I watch mountains, women who carry baskets on their heads, dresses stitchedd with jungle patterns. Ama, I leave because I feel like an unfinished poem, because I'm always trying to bridge the difference. Ama, I wanted to tell you about the parade in Oaxaca that saved me. About how I looked for your God then mine in the desert, about the pomegranate I shared with a woman on the street whose face was brown and creased like yours. * * * * Lessons on Expulsion is strong wine (or tequila). Sanchez doesn't hold back in holding forth on sex workers; the need for, satisfaction with and the sadness of sex; violence; being haunted by your family and its expectations; spirituality; and of course more. The one Quinceañera I went to was a joyous formal celebration in a church followed by a party. Sanchez's opening poem of that name smacks you between the eyes and wrenches at your heart - "the silence climbs you/like a man until you hear/the meaty flaps of God inside you." She's a rebel, from start to finish, and her poems are filled with vivid, often surreal, imagery - e.g., "the day goes on picking/ the meat from its teeth", the ending to her poem "The Loop." All her senses are engaged, but her lot isn't an easy one. Occasionally she'll find "a brief happiness as fierce as the wet muscles of a horse." I wish I'd heard her at Women and Children First here last July. I imagine it was powerful. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
Premis
"What is life but a cross / over rotten water?" Poet, novelist, and essayist Erika L. S?chez powerful debut poetry collection explores what it means to live on both sides of the border -- the border between countries, languages, despair and possibility, and the living and the dead. S?chez tells her own story as the daughter of undocumented Mexican immigrants and as part of a family steeped in faith, work, grief, and expectations. The poems confront sex, shame, race, and an America roiling with xenophobia, violence, and laws of suspicion and suppression. With candor and urgency, and with the unblinking eyes of a journalist, S?chez roves from the individual life into the lives of sex workers, narco-traffickers, factory laborers, artists, and lovers. What emerges is a powerful, multifaceted portrait of survival. Lessons on Expulsion is the first book by a vibrant, essential new writer now breaking into the national literary landscape. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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