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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
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Querida: Poems

Querida: Poems

Osorio, Nathan Xavier

Paperback

Series: Pitt Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0822948370
ISBN13: 9780822948377
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Sep 10 2024
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.04 Depth: 7.99
Language: English
Winner, 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist, 2025 California Book Awards Finalist, 2025 Norma Faber First Book Award

Querida offers a place-based lyrical meditation on the poet's immigrant parents, collective memory, language, and family in the San Fernando region of Los Angeles, California. Through a constellation of interweaving persona poems, confessional reflections, imagistic portraits of people and places, and decolonial poetic rituals--braided with a crown of sonnets--a choir of speakers navigate the fraught inheritance of memory frayed by the generational trauma of migration, coloniality, and the exploitative labor of late-stage capitalism. Swaying between maximalist and carnivalesque textual decadence and sparse, brutalist, bilingual inquiries into language as yet another exploitative and extractive tool for control, these poems honor familial and community wisdom as the only way to survive the steadily destabilizing Capitalocene.

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