YOU
eBook - ePub

YOU

  1. 88 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

About this book

From the author of MyOTHER TONGUE comes a new collection of prose poetry exploring the intergenerational inheritance of gendered violence.


Rosa Alcalá choreographs language to understand the body as it "gathers itself over time to become whole, " recovering the speaker's intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches, anxieties, and lessons of a woman's survival. Ruminating on daughterhood, mothering, and the body's cumulative wisdom, YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present.

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Subtopic
Poetry

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. How It Started, How It’s Going {An Introduction}
  6. Would You?
  7. You, the Body & the Book
  8. You, the Bourgeoisie
  9. You & the Dying Languages
  10. You & the Pendulum
  11. You to the Future
  12. You, Supplicant
  13. What Does Your Daughter Wish For?
  14. Your Daughter Refashions the Flag into a Crop Top
  15. You Rode a Loop
  16. You Lie
  17. You, Escape Artist
  18. What Did You Dream?
  19. Your Mother’s Advice
  20. What You Knew About Virginity
  21. You, Glistening in the Meadow
  22. You & the Rapper
  23. While Your Fathers Did Second Shifts
  24. You, Amateur Interpreter
  25. Tu Mamá
  26. How You Became a Poet
  27. A Girl Like You
  28. You in Cutoffs
  29. You, a Hand, Another
  30. You in Palazzo Pants
  31. You & the Bosses
  32. Not, “What Can You Remember?”
  33. You Are Officially in Menopause
  34. #NotAllHands
  35. You Were an Asshole
  36. You Were No Saint
  37. You: Promo
  38. You & the Banker
  39. When Did You Become Your Mother?
  40. You & the Donkey Cart
  41. You Decide at Fifty to Finally Become Elegant
  42. You & Louise Bourgeois’s The Fragile
  43. You & “The Breast”
  44. You & the Raw Bullets
  45. Industrial Sign Language (You at the Textile Museum)
  46. What Good Does It Do You?
  47. At Your Mother’s Wake
  48. You Dream of the Closed-Concept Kitchen
  49. You in Exile
  50. Emailing Your Exes
  51. This Little Catalog You’ve Been Assembling
  52. Screw You, ICE
  53. R U ok?! (8/3/2019)
  54. You Choose the World: A Poetics
  55. Acknowledgments
  56. A Note
  57. Funder Acknowledgments
  58. The Publisher’s Circle of Coffee House Press
  59. About the Author
  60. Back Cover