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Birth Language: Poems
Paperback
Publisher Price: $19.95
ISBN13: 9781882688661
Publisher: Tia Chucha Press
Published: Aug 4 2026
Pages: 84
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Aimee Suzara's second full-length book Birth Language centers on a Filipina-American time traveling through her history, twisted and haunted like the roots of a balete tree.
The book fuses English, Spanish, and Tagalog. It employs archival texts from as early as the 1500s when European conquistadors and explorers encountered the pre-colonial Philippine islands. Guided by the babaylan (shaman) and populated by mythical creatures like the mananneansal kapre, and sireno, the collection celebrates a history of resistance, reclaiming and redefining the self despite colonization, assimilation, and cultural loss.
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