The Water We Swim In
Beschreibung
Christian Aldana's debut poetry collection, The Water We Swim In, is an ode to radical care. Through community organizing and deeply held love, Aldana follows in the footsteps of Grace Lee Boggs against a carceral state. They champion safety for all who need it while challenging the waters of our time, this state in which protection is needed. Aldana questions the broken system and shows us an alternative future well within our grasp. As she gives to others, she also gives to herself, allowing space for grief, acknowledging the distances between us in the diaspora. Unapologetically queer and neurodivergent, Aldana's writing exudes power and teaches us we will never drown as long as we have each other. Empowering, mobilizing, and unrelenting, The Water We Swim In is a poetic revolution, a manifesto for all who believe in fighting for more.
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Inhalt
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Note to the Reader & Content Warning
- Contents
- Crafting Our Safety Plan: A Foreword
- What Happened in 2020, an inventory of self
- my student asks me what she should bring to the protest
- Stop Telling Me Police Will Keep Us Safe
- Pepper spray
- Texting
- 4:00AM in Chicago
- Recipe cards
- Reading Audre Lorde in the kitchen, 3 days before you decided to leave me
- First year death anniversary
- 2032
- Stop Telling Me Police Will Keep Us Safe
- Men fear me but can't stop telling me their secrets
- Call Center
- Half-Past King Philip
- A sestina for my mother tongue
- Elegy
- in which we have elemental powers, and all the colonizers die
- Pantoum for 2032
- Mayari begins the solar eclipse
- Pekpek Power
- I: River of Time
- Writing Prompt:
- Everyone is having fun at the party
- she/they
- A short blessing for my long list of perceived flaws
- self-keeping
- Kamayan
- Blessing the rice god statue in the full moon
- Last rites
- II: River of Time
- Villanelle for the Water We Swim In
- An affirmation
- Notes & Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Note
- Translation Index
- Author's Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- About the Artist
- Land Acknowledgement
- About Sampaguita Press
