Wild Invocations

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. "WILD INVOCATIONS is that moment that happens sometimes at a bombazo when you realize that you're watching a woman dance, but also witnessing the dancing of all the generations who meet inside her. And that their dancing is filled with both a listening for the routes and a burning of the routes. History blooming and being ravaged all at once. These poems are, for me, that moment: mighty and elemental, inventive and imaginative--with an ear to the drum. They are fierce in their ability to render the catastrophes while simultaneously surviving them. Here Ysabel Gonzßlez chooses 'to ruthlessly start / from the scratchy / throated beginning.' She writes: 'Mother, teach me // teach me to unleash / unravel a memory / memory which kills ahead.' This book is urgent, prayerful, fight-full. Alive. Every word and breath here is a mind willing itself to live. We are so lucky for this poet in the world." --Aracelis Girmay

• | Author: Ysabel Y. Gonzalez
• | Publisher: Get Fresh Books Llc
• | Publication Date: Apr 01, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 70 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0998935859
• | ISBN-13: 9780998935850