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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
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Have You Been Long Enough at Table

Have You Been Long Enough at Table

Sainz, Leslie

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 1959030116
ISBN13: 9781959030119
Publisher: Tin House
Published: Sep 26 2023
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.06 Width: 6.15 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Winner of the Publishing Triangle Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry

Finalist for the Vermont Book Award

Finalist for the New England Book Award

Finalist for the Poetry Society of America's Norma Farber First Book Award

Marvelous.--Terrance Hayes

Taking its title from Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, Leslie Sainz's Have You Been Long Enough at Table explores the personal and historical tragedies of the Cuban American experience through a distinctly feminine lens. Formally diverse with echoes of Spanish throughout, this debut collection critiques power and patriarchy as weaponized by the governments of the United States and the Republic of Cuba. In investigating the realities of displacement and inherited exile, Sainz honors her imagined past, present, and future as a result of the revolution within the revolution--the emancipation of Cuban women.

Through lyric and associative meditations, Sainz anatomizes the unique grief of immigrant daughters, as her speakers discover how family can be a microcosm of the very violence that displaced them. What emerges is a spiritual blueprint for disinheritance, radical self-determination, and the nuanced examinations of myth, ritual, and resistance.

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