YOU DA ONE

by Jennif(f)Er Tamayo

Poetry. By turns violent, political, romantic, incestual, cerebral, bodily, and personal, this second full-length from Tamayo (Red Missed Aches) bears the formal markings of the hypermodern in its deployment of digital, pop, and intertextual elements. Written after her first trip back to her native Colombia in 25 years, the book is indebted to Rihanna, Barthes, and Aime Cesaire, whose texts she mines voraciously. Those influences, as well as the spectres of Alfred Molina and the author's father, haunt the page, intermixed with screen captures, cheap internet advertising, deliberate misspellings, and pun-ridden Spanglish. This new edition includes interruptions that focus on dismantling rape culture.

Genres: Poetry

142 pages, Paperback

Published July 15, 2017

Reviews

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

An updated version of the first You Da One, expanded and split open and re-released by Noemi--after the shit went down with its original publisher. This book is brutal and often confusing. It indicts as it comforts. I recommend it highly.

[Ramesh Rahindra · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a great read.