Invocation to daughters
By: Barbara Jane Reyes
Series: City Lights spotlight -- no. 16; City Lights spotlight -- no. 16.
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 74
ISBN-13: 9780872867475
Subjects: Asian American authors; American poetry
Work titles: Poems
Description: "Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet"--

"The fifth collection from Oakland poet Barbara Jane Reyes, in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Invocation to Daughters is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish, Reyes unleashes this colonized tongue against sexualized and racialized violence towards Pinay women. With its meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Invocation to Daughters is a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity"--