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Letters to a Young Brown Girl

Barbara Jane Reyes
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Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector.

The Brown Girl of these poems has is fed up with being shushed, with being constantly told how foreign and unattractive and unwanted she is. She’s flipping tables and throwing chairs. She’s raising her voice. She’s keeping a sharp focus on the violences committed in her everyday, and she’s writing through the depths of her “otherness” to find beauty and even grace amidst her rage. Simultaneously looking into the mirror and out into the world, Reyes exposes the sensitive nerve-endings of life under patriarchy as a visible immigrant woman of color as she reaches towards her center and the core values of her elders.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
BOA Editions Ltd.
Edition:
American Poets Continuum Series (Book 182)
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1950774171
ISBN13:
9781950774173
kindle Asin:
B08B9GQ9YG

Letters to a Young Brown Girl

Barbara Jane Reyes
4.35/5 (161 ratings)
Read Download
Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector.

The Brown Girl of these poems has is fed up with being shushed, with being constantly told how foreign and unattractive and unwanted she is. She’s flipping tables and throwing chairs. She’s raising her voice. She’s keeping a sharp focus on the violences committed in her everyday, and she’s writing through the depths of her “otherness” to find beauty and even grace amidst her rage. Simultaneously looking into the mirror and out into the world, Reyes exposes the sensitive nerve-endings of life under patriarchy as a visible immigrant woman of color as she reaches towards her center and the core values of her elders.
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
112 pages
Publication:
2020
Publisher:
BOA Editions Ltd.
Edition:
American Poets Continuum Series (Book 182)
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
1950774171
ISBN13:
9781950774173
kindle Asin:
B08B9GQ9YG

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