Bøger af Jessica Helen Lopez

The Blood Poems is one part bloodletting, one part healing, and one part sensuous celebration as Jessica Helen Lopez lays out what it means to be a strong brown woman, a single mother, and the kickass bard that the twenty-first century needs. Lopez openly faces a damaging childhood, sex, divorce, and racial injustice in these poems. She proves that love is as complicated as lovemaking-messy and lusty, raucous and powerful, capable of amazing highs and abysmal lows. She proves that when a woman learns to love herself, she will live a fierce and full life and teach her daughters to do the same.

Capturing more than 70 voices from the current poetry evolution in New Mexico, this anthology gathers together the power and presence of both traditional page poetry and performance poetry, including poems from several young writers under the age of twenty in their first anthology publications! Activists. Performers. Witnesses to the tragic and the beautiful. With guest poets Jimmy Santiago Baca, Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo, this book throws the borders open; bringing an entire poetry community together in a powerful, unified voice. Listen up, the new Movement is here!

"Every generation a few select voices seem to rise up and represent a revolution in the mechanics and mission of poetry. This collection is an exotic, aphrodisiacal perfume wafting through the senses, thickly spiced by the dual nature of a poet whose culture and experience effortlessly blend concrete imagery with a quiet, fierce longing for a world that may only exist within memory - or verse.” - Zachary Kluckman