Querida: Poems

Querida offers a place-based lyrical meditation on the poet's immigrant parents, collective memory, language, and family in the San Fernando region of Los Angeles, California. Through a constellation of interweaving persona poems, confessional reflections, imagistic portraits of people and places, and decolonial poetic rituals--braided with a crown of sonnets--a choir of speakers navigate the fraught inheritance of memory frayed by the generational trauma of migration, coloniality, and the exploitative labor of late-stage capitalism. Swaying between maximalist and carnivalesque textual decadence and sparse, brutalist, bilingual inquiries into language as yet another exploitative and extractive tool for control, these poems honor familial and community wisdom as the only way to survive the steadily destabilizing Capitalocene.

Author: Nathan Xavier Osorio
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 09/10/2024
Pages: 112
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.99h x 6.04w x 0.34d
ISBN13: 9780822948377
ISBN10: 0822948370
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | Hispanic & Latino
- Poetry | Subjects & Themes | Places