{"product_id":"invocation-to-daughters-city-lights-spotlight-no-16-paperback","title":"Invocation to Daughters: City Lights Spotlight No. 16 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Jane Reyes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2018 California Book Award Finalist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFeminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into 'capital, collateral, damaged soul.' However, the women that appear throughout the book are not merely victims; in Reyes's radical cosmology, these women--these daughters--are rebels, saints, revolutionaries, and torchbearers, 'sharp-tongued, willful.' This book is a call to arms against oppressive languages, systems, and traditions.\"--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Infused with Spanish and Tagalog, Reyes's beautiful, angry verse shines throughout. For a wide range of readers.\"--\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I cannot shout 'brilliant' loud enough. Start to this finish, \u003cem\u003eInvocation to Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e is truth. 'I am not your ethnic spectacle. I am not your cultural poverty. You \/ don't get to frame me.' This is a book you read and teach and live.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eAnthony Cody\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBorderland Apocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInvocation to Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e 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, in meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Barbara Jane Reyes unleashes the colonized tongue in a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eInvocation to Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Against violence against women, Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs, jumping off Audre Lorde's 'the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house, ' \u003cem\u003eInvocation to Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e recombines registers--prayers, pleas and elegy--braiding a trilingual triple-threat, a 3-pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street, utterance with erasure, the prose sentence with the liminal. \u003cem\u003eInvocation to Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e reminds me of the 70's in the East Bay, when Jessica Hagedorn met Ntozake Shange and ignited a green flash seen from horizon to horizon. Barbara Jane Reyes is one of the Bay Area's incendiary voices.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eSesshu Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eELADATL\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eInvocation to Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e is a space for multitudes, a hypnotic collection that draws from family history--particularly the complex cultural gendered dynamic between father and daughter--in order to create a manual for emancipation from the interior and exterior binds that keep us from ourselves. Through prayers, calls to actions, and testimonies, Reyes invents 'a language so that we know ourselves, so that we may sing, and tell, and pray.'\"--\u003cstrong\u003eCarmen Giménez Smith\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBe Recorder\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eCruel Futures\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Jane Reyes is the author of \u003cem\u003eInvocation to Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e (City Lights Spotlight Series, 2017)\u003cem\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e She was born in Manila, Philippines, raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, and is the author of four previous collections of poetry, \u003cem\u003eTo Love as Aswang\u003c\/em\u003e (Philippine American Writers and Artists, Inc., 2015), \u003cem\u003eGravities of Center\u003c\/em\u003e (Arkipelago Books, 2003), \u003cem\u003ePoeta en San Francisco\u003c\/em\u003e (Tinfish Press, 2005), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, and \u003cem\u003eDiwata\u003c\/em\u003e (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellow, she received her B.A. in Ethnic Studies at U.C. Berkeley and her M.F.A. at San Francisco State University. She is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco's Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She has also taught in the Asian American Studies Department at San Francisco State University, and in Creative Writing and English at Mills College. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Philippine American Writers and Artists (PAWA). She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, where she is co-editor of Doveglion Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 6.8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 31, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45853891068101,"sku":"9780872867475","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/WjhXMlUzZEg0Rm9ad09hWFJyWEI5Zz09.webp?v=1771469315","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/invocation-to-daughters-city-lights-spotlight-no-16-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}