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the daughterland is a Plathian interrogation of Mexican motherhood during the regressive Covid-era by a mother who was a daughter during the arms race, Ronald Reagan, and socially-accepted toxic masculinity. Garcias poems are the secrets parents wish they didnt have to keep to themselves.
Michelle Cruz Gonzales, Musician, professor, author of The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band
Margaret Elysia Garcia may be my favorite living poet, a maestra of the form. In our era of sacrifice, young blood spilled, and hummingbirds that fly too close to the sun, Garcia tenders her exquisite language, late-stage lyricism, & fullnamed, full-throated mestiza cri de cuento.
Susie Bright, author of Susie Brights Sexual State of the Union and Big Sex Little Death: A Memoir
Margaret Elysia Garcia paints poems of a mothers broken-heartedness with unfiltered ferociousness, her daughters life as palette. While we cant know our daughters traumas, we do try. We hope they forgive our failures to protect them. How could we? Garcias written her own mother-comforting failure salve, her own writer-comforting vengeance.
Jenny Forrester, author of Narrow River, Wide Sky: A Memoir and Soft Hearted Stories: Seeking Saviors, Cowboy Stylists, and Other Fallacies of Authoritarianism
Breathtaking. A brave and timely work. Margaret Elysia Garcia digs deep into the personal to reach the universal stream. The poems in this volume come together like an underground chorus of the female experience here and now at the edge of the world, burning and surviving.
Ariel Gore, author of The Wayward Writer: Summon Your Power to Take Back Your Story, Liberate Yourself from Capitalism, and Publish Like a Superstar
the daughterland is an urgent and beautiful collection of poetry that speaks to the bonds of mother and daughter and the many faces of survival. Margaret Elysia Garcias voice soars as she chronicles an authentic account of her experience as a Latina mother celebrating her heritage and supporting her daughter through bigotry, sexism, and trauma.
-Teresa Berkowitz, editor of Tangled Locks Journal
Author: Margaret Elysia Garcia
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: El Martillo Press
Published: 06/01/2023
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.4lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d
ISBN: 9781088030523
Language: English
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