Letters to a Young Brown Girl
- 72 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.
Barbara Jane Reyes Bücher
Diese Autorin erforscht komplexe Identitäten und kulturelles Erbe durch Poesie und Prosa. Ihre Werke tauchen mit einer einzigartigen Sensibilität in Themen wie Liebe, Gemeinschaft und persönliche Transformation ein. Die Autorin greift oft auf Mythologie und Folklore zurück, um zeitgenössische menschliche Erfahrungen zu beleuchten. Ihr Schreiben ist sowohl intim als auch universell und spricht Leser an, die ein tieferes Verständnis ihrer selbst und der Welt suchen.
Wanna Peek Into My Notebook?: Notes on Pinay Liminality
- 162 Seiten
- 6 Lesestunden
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
- 74 Seiten
- 3 Lesestunden
"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"--