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 Cáaacute;rdenas' Trace explores conditions of displacement, liminality, and mutability.
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards (Poetry) 2024 3rd Winner
Author(s): Brenda Cardenas
120 Pages
Poetry, Hispanic & Latino

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About the Book

With arresting images and scintillating internal music, the poems in Trace are at turns ekphrastic, elegiac, mythic, rebellious, interlingual, and whimsical, forming a constellation of experience and its traces which transgress borders at every turn.

Book Synopsis

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 Cáaacute;rdenas' 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.

Review Quotes

"I heard Brenda Cáaacute;rdenas read from her new collection, Trace, at The Hungry Brain in Chicago: an incantation, a call to action. By the time I got to the book table, there were no more copies to purchase." -Susanna Lang, RHINO Poetry

"[Cardenas'] latest book claims an expanded and expansive field of writers and artists (including Lucille Clifton, Ana Mendieta, Cecilia Vicuñntilde;a, and Remedios Varo), in poems that go beyond the ekphrastic into the kinetic, the performative, the liminal space of dream and desire. Lines I can't get out of my head: "What can we do with this gathering of ghosts / but welcome them home." --Urayoán Noel, Intervenxions

Specifications

Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)

Weight: .4 Pounds

Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up

Number of Pages: 120

Genre: Poetry

Sub-Genre: Hispanic & Latino

Publisher: Red Hen Press

Format: Paperback

Author: Brenda Cardenas

Language: English

Street Date: April 18, 2023

TCIN: 1009792130

UPC: 9781636280936

Item Number (DPCI): 247-15-4767

Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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