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.
| ISBN: | 9780822948377 |
| Publication date: | 10th September 2024 |
| Author: | Nathan Xavier Osorio |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 88 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry Narrative theme: Sense of place |
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.
Querida features in the following genres: Poetry, Narrative theme: Sense of place
Querida is available in Paperback
Querida was written by Nathan Xavier Osorio and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
Querida has 88 pages
Yes it is part of Pitt Poetry Series series
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