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Snake Breath
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Series: Deep Line Poetry
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Publisher: Hub City Press
Pages: 80
Language: English
Winner of the Deep Line Poetry Series, snake breath traces a daughter's journey through grief, inheritance, and transformation.
Mirroring the body of a snake, these poems move from head to tail, evoking the cycle of shedding and renewal and interrogating the loss of the poet's father, a war veteran whose death fractures language, memory, and identity. Through elegies that recur like ritual, the poet returns to the moment of loss while grappling with anxiety, anger, and longing.
Rooted in Mexican American and South Texan landscapes, the poems braid English, Spanish, and Nahuatl with Catholic image, folklore, and borderland histories. Feminine figureheads like La Llorona, the Virgin Mary, Coyolxauhqui, and the snake become vessels for exploring daughterhood, sexuality, and the body as both sacred and haunted. Domestic spaces, kitchens, and family rituals hold tenderness alongside intergenerational trauma.
In her debut collection, Bianca Alyssa Pérez confronts inherited silences and reclaims voice through mythmaking and embodiment. Desire, shame, and devotion collide, revealing a self that is constantly in flux. snake breath offers a vision of survival where grief becomes a site of transformation and the act of shedding as a necessary form of becoming.
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