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The Pink Box by Yesenia Montilla
The beautifully arresting cover art for the poetry collection, "The Pink Box" by Yesenia Montilla is as compelling as the poems within. This delightful alchemy does not often happen. Alexis De Veaux, novelist, biographer, and essayist says of Montilla's work, "Yesenia Montilla’s poems cross-fertilize space and time; linking the wilderness, the city, and an otherworld like a subway ride from uptown to downtown, crosstown and back. Along the way, we don’t just switch trains, we switch stations of desire: the Dominican Republic is the blues, Ayiti/Haiti is jazz, hip-hop is abuelita. "
Yes. The poems of "The Pink Box" have much movement. They are paeans to immigration and integration and syncretism and the simple inclusion of all relevant identity, all relevant beauty. They are a praise song to Afro-Latina experiences. They are seductive poems. You may gobble up more in one sitting than you intend. Fall for them.
Yesenia Montilla is a Participating Writers for Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018, September 7, 8 &9th. #Hobartwomenwriter18 #womenwrite
Yes. The poems of "The Pink Box" have much movement. They are paeans to immigration and integration and syncretism and the simple inclusion of all relevant identity, all relevant beauty. They are a praise song to Afro-Latina experiences. They are seductive poems. You may gobble up more in one sitting than you intend. Fall for them.
Yesenia Montilla is a Participating Writers for Hobart Festival of Women Writers 2018, September 7, 8 &9th. #Hobartwomenwriter18 #womenwrite
A Few Whiles
I knew a boy once who thought that, if there was one while, i.e. a unit – a while of time, then surely there were two whiles and three and so on to several. So, often he would say that he’d be back in
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