"Jennifer Espinoza's Poetry Creates a World Where Every Trans Person Is Safe"
"In poetry collections like I'm Alive. It Hurts. I Love It. and There Should Be Flowers, Espinoza gently yet frankly captures the frequent whiplash of trans experience, as more direct political address is offset by images of stunning beauty and lyricism. Her poems embody that notion of inventing your own logic, as Espinoza's words squarely define and outline a worldview that's suffused with devotion and grace, but unafraid to defend itself when needed."
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Felicia Zamora on Threa Almontaser's The Wild Fox of Yemen
"I keep returning to 'Heritage Emissary.' The work of this poem cores me. The couplets mimic tensions throughout the entire book with the push/pull of play and intense difficulty juxtaposed. The pluralities of being for multilingual individuals become verb—as in 'When I Arabic my way/ towards them'—and we continue to see the stitch/wound paradox for the voice in, 'I long to play a song that doesn't terrorize,/ a song that's understood.'" |
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