Largehearted Boy | "In Marcela Huerta’s debut poetry collection, she digs to the roots of her family tree, unearthing grief, memory, and the experiences as a second-generation immigrant. Punch-In-The-Face Poetry | Fall 2017 Books by Poets of Color Marcela has crafted a careful but uncompromising testament to how families can at once soothe and hurt each other, and how one can hope to cope with that lasting pain."ĭrawn & Quarterly | "A poignant collection of poems." Remezcla | The Best Books From Latin American & Latino Authors in 2017 | "Huerta’s writing is by turns tough and tender, but always brilliant and startling and emotionally astute."ĭoktorak, Go! | "It is between narrative and silence that the poetry of Marcela Huerta finds its place."Ĭult MTL | "Passionate and gut-wrenching."ĭrawn & Quarterly | "Fusing fragments of past selves to circle around absence and loss, this slim volume contains lush explorations of grief."ĭrawn & Quarterly | " Tropico is all the best parts of the memoir, the poem, and the short story. Librairie Drawn & Quarterly | Poetry Bestsellers 2017 Vallum Magazine | A Conversation with Marcela Huerta Indie Book Review | A Daughter's Love Through Poetry – Julie Delporte, author of Journal and Everywhere Antennas Instead, they let them both exist in the complexity of grief, like blunt and rational facts, creating a vibrant homage to her father." Huerta's words never try to reconcile this attraction and repulsion.
"Huerta clearly describes the ambivalent love one can have for a father, the back and forth between being proud of a parent but having to protect yourself from them, between being at once always too close and always too far. – Kathleen Oliver, author of Swollen Tongues non acus abrupit, non vallum pectinis illos. With exquisite tenderness, Huerta writes her father back into being.” Adde, quod et dociles et centum rlexibus apti et tibi nullius causa doloris erant. In these beautifully observed poems, the mundane and the cataclysmic tumble together, burnishing a daughter’s grief.
“Marcela Huerta sifts through crumpled photos, family stories, and the past-both remembered and imagined-that tethers her to another place, scented by terror and sorrow. Through the intimate detailing of everyday occurrences, Tropico reveals how intergenerational trauma disrupts childhood and lays bare the lived effects of American imperialism.įrench Translation | Tropico | Available via Groupe Nota Bene: Éditions Triptyque (Québec) Blurbs The daughter of political refugees from Chile, Huerta shares memories of her recently departed father, who becomes a symbol for Chilean culture and leftist resistance after his passing. Tropico, Marcela Huerta’s debut collection of poetry, tackles grief, memory, and the experiences of a second-generation immigrant.
0 kommentar(er)
