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National Book Award Longlist in Poetry
Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award Finalist
International Latino Book Awards Finalist
Texas Institute of Letters’ Burdine C. Johnson Award for Best Book of Poetry Honor-Winner
The Juan Felipe Herrerra Best Poetry Book Award Finalist
In The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream. This is a book within a book, a memory within a memory, a future within a past, and most urgently–a journey to reclaim the self for what it was and to proclaim what it could be. Nested within one another, the English and Spanish, the poetry and art, create layers of obscuration and revelation, unburying the fractured landscapes left in the wake of geographic, emotional, and familial dislocation.
In this collection, Quintanilla finds the language and the form to write about the loss that often happens when one migrates from one country to another: the loss of family, the loss of culture, and the loss of language. Of course, this book is more than that–more than a narrative of loss–it is a book of poetic reclamation, of poetic imagination, of finding new and interesting ways to tell a story, a love of language at its center, so as to reclaim a history of trauma and mythologize the self.
Author: Octavio Quintanilla
Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
Published: 9/1/2024
Pages: 122
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0 lbs
Size: 0″ H x 0″ L x 0″ W
ISBN: 9781680033663
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