
Lima :: Limn
: Limón
Natalie Scenters-Zapico(Author)
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
Published on 27. June 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
80 pages
978-1-55659-531-8 (ISBN)
Description
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Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Poetry Books To Read For Spring 2019 "Through a range of forms-tercets, prose hybrids, lyric strophes, and more-the poems in Scenters-Zapico's second collection . . . incisively interrogate the aesthetics of cultural difference." -Publishers Weekly, starred review In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Lima :: Limón illuminates both the sweet and the sour of the immigrant experience, of life as a woman in the U.S. and Mexico, and of the politics of the present day. Drawing inspiration from the music of her childhood, her lyrical poems focus on the often-tested resilience of women. Scenters-Zapico writes heartbreakingly about domestic violence and its toxic duality of macho versus hembra, of masculinity versus femininity, and throws into harsh relief the all-too-normalized pain that women endure. Her sharp verse and intense anecdotes brand her poems into the reader; images like the Virgin Mary crying glass tears and a border fence that leaves never-healing scars intertwine as she stares down femicide and gang violence alike. Unflinching, Scenters-Zapico highlights the hardships and stigma immigrants face on both sides of the border, her desire to create change shining through in every line. Lima :: Limón is grounding and urgent, a collection that speaks out against violence and works toward healing.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
172 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55659-531-8 (9781556595318)
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Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of The Verging Cities, as well as the recipient of the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the National Association of Chicano/a Studies Book Award.