Latinx Poetry
A list of recent poetry by Latinx poets selected by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. (Updated September 2020)
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Tracing the Horse
Delgado's stirring debut offers a ledger of the violence inflicted on female bodies within La Puente, located in the San Gabriel Valley of greater Los Angeles.
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Be Recorder
Smith's image-driven metaphors circle the "molten core of the real," articulating shared dilemmas while jolting the reader out of complacence.
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The Book of Ruin
These surrealist versions of historical events and a speculative future allow revolutionaries and outlaws, alongside elemental voices such as Brother Fire and Sister Smoke, to address their oppressors, often with tragic results.
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Brother Bullet
A collection of poems in which the author recounts her brother's murder and the devastating aftermath that followed. - publisher's description
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Losing Miami
An outstanding exploration of exile, Otherness, and the possibility of returning to a place you’ve never been to. - PANK Magazine
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The Crazy Bunch
Perdomo's masterful eye and ear stand out: the musicality of these poems is as rich as the detailed histories of the people inside them. By the end, the reader, too, yearns for the past and all the people lost in these pages.
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The Winter Garden Photograph
A meditation on the power and limitations of images. - publisher's description
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Hermosa
A journey of firsts, of mistakes, of celebrations, of the love, the crush, the disaster, the rebuilding, and the never-ending cycle of growth. - publisher's description
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Lima : Limón
Through a range of forms - tercets, prose hybrids, lyric strophes, and more - the poems in Scenters-Zapico's second collection (after The Verging Cities) incisively interrogate the aesthetics of cultural difference.
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I Offer My Heart as A Target
As the book unfolds, readers witness the role of language in creating truth from a variety of aesthetic vantages, ranging from the philosophical to the image-driven.
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