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Two Brown Dots (New Poets of America, 46)
BOA Editions Ltd.
ISBN13:
9781950774517
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Selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos carves a space for brown girls and weird girls in her debut collection of poems. Two Brown Dots explores what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic, Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky. In stark, honest poems, Quintos recounts the messiness and confusion of being a typical '90s kid--watching Dirty Dancing at sleepovers, borrowing eye shadow out of a friend's caboodle, crushing on a boy wearing khaki shorts to Sunday mass--while navigating the microagressions of the neighbor kids, the awkwardness of puberty, and the casual cruelties of fellow teenagers. The mixed-race daughter of a dark skinned Filipino immigrant, Quintos retells family stories and Phillipine folklore to try and make sense of an identity with roots on opposite sides of the globe. With clear-eyed candor and a wry sense of humor, Quintos teases the line between tokenism and representation, between assimilation and belonging, offering a potent antidote to the assumption that "American" means "white." Encompassing a whole journey from girlhood to motherhood, Two Brown Dots subverts stereotypes to reclaim agency and pride in the realness and rawness and unprettyness of a brown girl's body, boldly declaring: "We exist, we belong, we are from here, and we will continue to be."
- | Author: Danni Quintos
- | Publisher: Boa Editions Ltd.
- | Publication Date: Apr 12, 2022
- | Number of Pages: 112 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1950774511
- | ISBN-13: 9781950774517
- Author:
- Danni Quintos
- Publisher:
- Boa Editions Ltd.
- Publication Date:
- Apr 12, 2022
- Number of pages:
- 112 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1950774511
- ISBN-13:
- 9781950774517