Relinquenda
Poems
$37.19
- Paperback
120 pages
- Release Date
29 November 2022
Summary
A 4-part poetry collection that explores women’s roles in familial dynamics, immigration, and El Salvador’s civil war while reflecting on the death of the poet’s father.
A National Poetry Series winner, selected by the celebrated poet Reginald Dwayne Betts.
When COVID-19 broke and the United States closed the border to travel, Alexandra Lytton Regalado was separated from family back in El Salvador. She wrote Relinquenda entirely during lockdown as a meditation on canc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780807007105 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0807007102 |
| Author: | Alexandra Regalado |
| Publisher: | Beacon Press |
| Imprint: | Beacon Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 120 |
| Release Date: | 29 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 567g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm |
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Critics Review
“A very moving and profound book by one of the most significant LGBTQ+ voices coming from Latin America.”
—The Morning Star
“Resilient, introspective, and reverent.”
—Harvard Review
“Relinquenda is a rarity in that, in one book, it contains multiplicity of longings and reckonings. Alexandra Regalado is poet as historian, and poet as that family member we all have who keeps the names in whatever holy book we name, the one who has the photo albums—and more than that, who we gather around when they begin to sing our stories.”
—Reginald Dwayne Betts
About The Author
Alexandra Regalado
Alexandra Lytton Regalado is author, editor, or translator of more than 15 Central American-themed books. She is also the cofounder and codirector of Editorial Kalina. Her poetry collection, Matria, won the St. Lawrence Book Award. She is a CantoMundo fellow, winner of the Coniston Prize, and her work has appeared in The Best American Poetry, The Academy of American Poets, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Creative Nonfiction among others.
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