Letters to a Young Brown Girl
- 72 páginas
- 3 horas de lectura
Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.
Barbara Jane Reyes Libros
Esta autora explora identidades complejas y herencia cultural a través de la poesía y la prosa. Sus obras profundizan en temas como el amor, la comunidad y la transformación personal con una sensibilidad única. La autora a menudo recurre a la mitología y el folclore para iluminar las experiencias humanas contemporáneas. Su escritura es a la vez íntima y universal, resonando con lectores que buscan una comprensión más profunda de sí mismos y del mundo.
Wanna Peek Into My Notebook?: Notes on Pinay Liminality
- 162 páginas
- 6 horas de lectura
A collection of lyric essays / creative non-fiction about growing up into and practicing Pinay poetry/poetics, as a young immigrant and daughter of hustling immigrants, woman of color writer, educator and mentor
Invocation to Daughters
- 74 páginas
- 3 horas de lectura
"Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet"-- "The fifth collection from Oakland poet Barbara Jane Reyes, in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Invocation to Daughters is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish, Reyes unleashes this colonized tongue against sexualized and racialized violence towards Pinay women. With its meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Invocation to Daughters is a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity"--