The Pink Box (Willow Books Emerging Poets & Writers Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.74 (697 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0996139079 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 100 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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And there is spirit; something unseen, called forth, like Dominican Gaga rooted in the bateyes, the sugar cane fields, of memory. --Alexis De Veaux, author Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde & Yabo . Yesenia Montilla's poems cross fertilize space and time; linking the wilderness, the city, and an otherworld like a subway ride from uptown to downtown, cross town and back. Along the way, we don't just switch trains, we switch stations of desire: the Dominican Republic is the blues, Ayiti/Haiti is jazz, hip hop is abuelita. New York City begins on Hispaniola. --Ross Gay, author of Against Which, Bringing Down the Shovel, & Catalog of Unabashed GratitudeThe Pink Box has been waiting for us. Is it longing we hear? Or is it the crash of one island against another? Yes, there is yearning in these poems; for touch, for visibility, for a tongue not forgotten though no
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Willow Books Emerging Poets & Writers Series.. Poetry collection by Yesenia Montilla
. A CantoMundo Fellow, she received her MFA from Drew University in Poetry and Poetry in Translation. Her poetry has appeared in the Chapbook For The Crowns Of Your Head, as well as the literary journals: 5AM, Adanna, The Wide Shore and others. Yesenia Montilla is a New York City poet with Afro-Caribbean roots