Trace
Brenda Cardenas
(Author)
Description
Through image-rich poems regarding migration, transcultural identity, loss, connection, dream, and aging--some translingual, some ekphrastic responses to ephemeral and surreal works of art--Brenda Cárdenas' Trace explores conditions of displacement, liminality, and mutability. These poems transgress illusory borders between lands, languages, humans and the rest of the natural world, waking and dreaming, and the living and the dead as they unearth traces of experience that shape and haunt us, traces we leave behind for others to encounter. Although elegy resurfaces throughout this collection as does a poetics of social consciousness, Cárdenas also embraces moments of levity, story, and an effervescent internal music that balance her steps through fraught yet bewitching terrain.Product Details
Price
$17.95
$16.69
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Publish Date
April 18, 2023
Pages
120
Dimensions
0.0 X 0.0 X 0.0 inches | 0.4 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781636280936
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About the Author
Brenda Cárdenas is the author of Boomerang (Bilingual Press) and the chapbooks Bread of the Earth/The Last Colors with her husband Roberto Harrison; Achiote Seeds/Semillas de Achiote with Cristina García, Emmy Pérez, and Gabriela Erandi Rico; and From the Tongues of Brick and Stone. She also coedited Resist Much/Obey Little: Inaugural Poems to the Resistance (Spuyten Duyvil Press) and Between the Heart and the Land: Latina Poets in the Midwest (MARCH/Abrazo Press). Cárdenas has served as faculty for the CantoMundo writers' retreat and as Milwaukee Poet Laureate. She currently teaches Creative Writing and Latinx Literature at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.