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Paper America: New & Selected Poems
Hardcover
Series: Tcu Press Texas Poet Laureate, Book 21
Writing InstructionGeneral Poetry
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9780875659657
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: Mar 31 2026
Pages: 113
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.37 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
Drawing from her acclaimed collections Solstice and With the River on Our Face, alongside powerful new work, Pérez offers poems that confront the realities of immigration, border walls, cultural invisibility, and violence, while celebrating resilience, motherhood, and the enduring ties of family and heritage.
Writing from McAllen and the Rio Grande Valley, Pérez continues the legacy of Gloria Anzaldúa and Chicana/Latina writers who turned la frontera into a literary ground of strength and survival. Whether she is memorializing the children of Uvalde, reflecting on the river that sustains border communities, or capturing everyday encounters in classrooms and neighborhoods, her lines of poetry are precious--each one crafted with compassion, clarity, and urgency.
With Whitmanesque scope yet firmly grounded in Mexican American identity and borderlands experience, Pérez's poetry bridges the personal and the political, reminding readers of the power of words to bear witness, resist injustice, and cultivate hope. Paper america is both an introduction to one of Texas's most vital poets and a career-spanning testament to the necessity of art in difficult times.
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