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PublisherAstra Publishing House

ISBN-101662600593

ISBN-139781662600593

eBay Product ID (ePID)4050396273

Product Key Features

Book TitleDreaming of You : a Novel in Verse

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

TopicHispanic & Latino, Occult & Supernatural, General

IllustratorYes

GenrePoetry, Fiction

AuthorMelissa Lozada-Oliva

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2021-909548

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"A feverish story of young adulthood, exploring how fandom and obsession shape how we relate to the world . . . Dreaming of You navigates the complexities of Latinx identity, self-loathing, love, and the loneliness of drifting into adulthood." --Miguel Salazar, Vulture "An enjoyably madcap journey through the wasteland of fame, popular culture, and feminine identity in a post-colonial world." --Starred Review, Kirkus "Melissa Lozada-Oliva''s kinetic, pop-operatic Dreaming of You is like some terrific amalgam of fan fiction and fantasy nonfiction; a Selena monograph made of memoir, myth and magic. Her partly satirical, partly ecstatic linguistics constitute a whole other sort of literary hybrid. And, while I strain to describe Lozada-Oliva''s virtuosity, I want to very plainly say, at the heart of it all, Dreaming of You is a collection of moving, mercurial poems. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is truly a singular new voice." --Terrance Hayes, National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Dazzling, playful, and likely to break your heart at least twice. I love Dreaming of You five-hundred times as much as I hate writing blurbs. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a magician." --Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble "Some use the term ''confessional poetry'' to disparage the writer. However, there is a craft to revealing a secret. Ask your favorite chismoso. Melissa Lozada-Oliva''s Dreaming of You is a delight to read because Lozada-Oliva knows how to make awkwardness flinch, how to make crushes flutter, and how to make despair cry. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the poet laureate of chisme." --José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal "Like pop stardom, Melissa Lozada-Oliva''s Dreaming of You is all truth and all fiction, all at once; something we imagined and something we survived, the same way a girl we''re in love with is a girl we made up. I''m talking about both Selena and Melissa, I''m talking about Melissa the protagonist and Melissa the author, I''m talking about ghosts and heroes and ex-lovers and ourselves. Mostly, I''m saying that this collection, a macabre carnival, heals reality by distorting it, calls memory what it is: a funhouse, a roomful of mirrors where you can''t tell if the person you made out with was your crush or yourself, to which Lozada-Oliva shrugs and says, What''s the difference ?" --Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the Party " Dreaming of You is a party. One of those unforgettable ones, where everyone who is haunted encounters their ghosts and has a good time. Only in Melissa Lozada-Oliva''s beautiful, irreverent voice can we resurrect the beloved Selena in a seance gone wrong; only in her voice can we dance with dead celebrities, encounter the ''You'' in the poem, get ghosted by our ghosts, or break Yolanda out of prison. Delightful, dark, funny, perverse, loving--the poems that make up this novel are so alive, and so modern, they pulse." --Sally Wen Mao, author of Oculus " Dreaming of You is as warm and frank as your big sister giving you the real sex talk. It understands perfectly the singular agony of girlhood. To read it is to fall in love--with Selena, with the author, with all the unbound violent joy of which only girls are capable." --Rax King, author of Tacky "Thank god for Melissa Lozada-Oliva! Dreaming of You is a mystical, hungry, thumping heart; it''s funny and haunting and will be alive long after we are all dead and gone." --Catherine Cohen, comedian and co-host of Seek Treatment " Dreaming of You is fearlessly open, so friendly in its darknesses, beckoning again and again for us to come on in, to join this buoyant writer as she lets her imagination excavate feeling, examine celebrity, connections, lonelinesses and the oddities and beauties that become us." --Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, "Like pop stardom, Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is all truth and all fiction, all at once; something we imagined and something we survived, the same way a girl we're in love with is a girl we made up. I'm talking about both Selena and Melissa, I'm talking about Melissa the protagonist and Melissa the author, I'm talking about ghosts and heroes and ex-lovers and ourselves. Mostly, I'm saying that this collection, a macabre carnival, heals reality by distorting it, calls memory what it is: a funhouse, a roomful of mirrors where you can't tell if the person you made out with was your crush or yourself, to which Lozada-Oliva shrugs and says, What's the difference ?" --Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the Party, "Melissa Lozada-Oliva's kinetic, pop-operatic Dreaming of You is like some terrific amalgam of fan fiction and fantasy nonfiction; a Selena monograph made of memoir, myth and magic. Her partly satirical, partly ecstatic linguistics constitute a whole other sort of literary hybrid. And, while I strain to describe Lozada-Oliva's virtuosity, I want to very plainly say, at the heart of it all, Dreaming of You is a collection of moving, mercurial poems. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is truly a singular new voice." --Terrance Hayes, National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Dazzling, playful, and likely to break your heart at least twice. I love Dreaming of You five-hundred times as much as I hate writing blurbs. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a magician." --Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble "Some use the term 'confessional poetry' to disparage the writer. However, there is a craft to revealing a secret. Ask your favorite chismoso. Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is a delight to read because Lozada-Oliva knows how to make awkwardness flinch, how to make crushes flutter, and how to make despair cry. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the poet laureate of chisme." --José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal "Like pop stardom, Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is all truth and all fiction, all at once; something we imagined and something we survived, the same way a girl we're in love with is a girl we made up. I'm talking about both Selena and Melissa, I'm talking about Melissa the protagonist and Melissa the author, I'm talking about ghosts and heroes and ex-lovers and ourselves. Mostly, I'm saying that this collection, a macabre carnival, heals reality by distorting it, calls memory what it is: a funhouse, a roomful of mirrors where you can't tell if the person you made out with was your crush or yourself, to which Lozada-Oliva shrugs and says, What's the difference ?" --Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the Party " Dreaming of You is a party. One of those unforgettable ones, where everyone who is haunted encounters their ghosts and has a good time. Only in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's beautiful, irreverent voice can we resurrect the beloved Selena in a seance gone wrong; only in her voice can we dance with dead celebrities, encounter the 'You' in the poem, get ghosted by our ghosts, or break Yolanda out of prison. Delightful, dark, funny, perverse, loving--the poems that make up this novel are so alive, and so modern, they pulse." --Sally Wen Mao, author of Oculus " Dreaming of You is as warm and frank as your big sister giving you the real sex talk. It understands perfectly the singular agony of girlhood. To read it is to fall in love--with Selena, with the author, with all the unbound violent joy of which only girls are capable." --Rax King, author of Tacky "Thank god for Melissa Lozada-Oliva! Dreaming of You is a mystical, hungry, thumping heart; it's funny and haunting and will be alive long after we are all dead and gone." --Catherine Cohen, comedian and co-host of Seek Treatment " Dreaming of You is fearlessly open, so friendly in its darknesses, beckoning again and again for us to come on in, to join this buoyant writer as she lets her imagination excavate feeling, examine celebrity, connections, lonelinesses and the oddities and beauties that become us." --Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake, "An enjoyably madcap journey through the wasteland of fame, popular culture, and feminine identity in a post-colonial world." -- Starred Review, Kirkus "Melissa Lozada-Oliva's kinetic, pop-operatic Dreaming of You is like some terrific amalgam of fan fiction and fantasy nonfiction; a Selena monograph made of memoir, myth and magic. Her partly satirical, partly ecstatic linguistics constitute a whole other sort of literary hybrid. And, while I strain to describe Lozada-Oliva's virtuosity, I want to very plainly say, at the heart of it all, Dreaming of You is a collection of moving, mercurial poems. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is truly a singular new voice." --Terrance Hayes, National Book Award-winning author of Lighthead "Dazzling, playful, and likely to break your heart at least twice. I love Dreaming of You five-hundred times as much as I hate writing blurbs. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is a magician." --Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble "Some use the term 'confessional poetry' to disparage the writer. However, there is a craft to revealing a secret. Ask your favorite chismoso. Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is a delight to read because Lozada-Oliva knows how to make awkwardness flinch, how to make crushes flutter, and how to make despair cry. Melissa Lozada-Oliva is the poet laureate of chisme." --José Olivarez, author of Citizen Illegal "Like pop stardom, Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is all truth and all fiction, all at once; something we imagined and something we survived, the same way a girl we're in love with is a girl we made up. I'm talking about both Selena and Melissa, I'm talking about Melissa the protagonist and Melissa the author, I'm talking about ghosts and heroes and ex-lovers and ourselves. Mostly, I'm saying that this collection, a macabre carnival, heals reality by distorting it, calls memory what it is: a funhouse, a roomful of mirrors where you can't tell if the person you made out with was your crush or yourself, to which Lozada-Oliva shrugs and says, What's the difference ?" --Olivia Gatwood, author of Life of the Party " Dreaming of You is a party. One of those unforgettable ones, where everyone who is haunted encounters their ghosts and has a good time. Only in Melissa Lozada-Oliva's beautiful, irreverent voice can we resurrect the beloved Selena in a seance gone wrong; only in her voice can we dance with dead celebrities, encounter the 'You' in the poem, get ghosted by our ghosts, or break Yolanda out of prison. Delightful, dark, funny, perverse, loving--the poems that make up this novel are so alive, and so modern, they pulse." --Sally Wen Mao, author of Oculus " Dreaming of You is as warm and frank as your big sister giving you the real sex talk. It understands perfectly the singular agony of girlhood. To read it is to fall in love--with Selena, with the author, with all the unbound violent joy of which only girls are capable." --Rax King, author of Tacky "Thank god for Melissa Lozada-Oliva! Dreaming of You is a mystical, hungry, thumping heart; it's funny and haunting and will be alive long after we are all dead and gone." --Catherine Cohen, comedian and co-host of Seek Treatment " Dreaming of You is fearlessly open, so friendly in its darknesses, beckoning again and again for us to come on in, to join this buoyant writer as she lets her imagination excavate feeling, examine celebrity, connections, lonelinesses and the oddities and beauties that become us." --Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Dewey Decimal813.6

Table Of ContentCONTENTS CAST OF CHARACTERS PART I: COMO LA FLOR, TANTO AMOR Dreaming of You I'm So Lonely I Grow a New Hymen My Sisters and I Would Watch the Selena Movie 6'5" Looking for Something Casual that Has the Potential to Be Something More ;) I Watch Selena's Open-Casket Funeral Just to Make Things Clear, I Am Not a Haunted Person What If Selena Taught Me How to Fake an Orgasm El Chico del Apartamento 512 Karaoke Interlude Crush Sonnets I'm Not a Virgin But The Future Is Lodged Inside of the Female Resurrecting Selena I'm Not Sure What to Do with Her, Exactly El Chisme According to Others: Selena at theHalloween Party PART II: ME MARCHO HOY Selena and Me Selena on the Train Hi, Uh, Hi, Hello, You've Reached Melissa Selena and You I Take Selena to a Poetry Reading In the Middle of My Poem A Star Is Born Again Selena Asks for Directions I Try to Go On with My Life I Will Name It She Who's That Girl? Mami Calls Me to Tell Me She Had a Dream If You Could Give It a Name, Who Would She Be? Papi Calls Me Dear Ms. Melissa Lozada-Oliva Abraham Quintanilla is Out for My Blood Yolanda Saldivar Gets Away With It In Which I Answer All of the Questions from My Imaginary and Very Important Interview of the Future El Chisme According to Others: Yolanda at the Gay Bar PART III: YO SE PERDER Yolanda Tells Me Yolanda Tells Me What Happened that Night March 31, 1995 My Lover Shows Me His Gun Collection Remember that Yolanda Was a Little Girl Once What If Reclaimed the Woman Will We Ever Stop Crying About the Dead Star Dead Celebrity Prom You and Me Don't Talk Anymore Poem for Fucking a Fish I Made You a Playlist to Get the Real You Back Even Though Real You Doesn't Listen to the Lyrics We Cry About It Together Yolanda Leaves a Note El Chisme According to Others: Where Is Selena? PART IV: COMO ME DUELE Yolanda Wears Melissa's Skin into Selena's Hotel Room Hellraiser Killing Time at Karaoke Her Funeral Plays on a Loop Selena Dies a Third Time We Begin to Slow Dance There Is Only One Way Out Yolanda Saldivar Orders a Stack of Pancakes Last Chisme Before We Go EPILOGUE Yolanda and Selena Don't Talk Anymore It's Selena's Birthday in Salina, Kansas In the Beginning ALTERNATE ENDING Selena Doesn't Die Selena Still Isn't Dead Selena Still Has Some Time Left RESURRECTING SELENA, FEAT. TIFFANY MALLERY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Synopsis"A feverish story of young adulthood, exploring how fandom and obsession shape how we relate to the world . . . Dreaming of You navigates the complexities of Latinx identity, self-loathing, love, and the loneliness of drifting into adulthood." --Miguel Salazar, Vulture "At the center of this exploration of insecurities, joys, and identity stands Melissa Lozada-Oliva--an unapologetic poet who isn't afraid of the rawness of the mind and is resilient in her writing-- so much so that it feels like we're talking to our best friend." --Bianca Pérez, Porter House Review A macabre novel in verse of loss, longing, and identity crises following a poet who resurrects pop star Selena from the dead. Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is an absurd yet heartfelt examination of celebrity worship. A young Latinx poet grappling with loneliness and heartache decides one day to bring Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla back to life. The séance kicks off an uncanny trip narrated by a Greek chorus of gossiping spirits as she journeys through a dead celebrity prom, encounters her shadow self, and performs karaoke in hell. In visceral poems embodying millennial angst, paragraph-long conversations overheard at her local coffeeshop, and unhinged Twitter rants, Lozada-Oliva reveals an eerie, sometimes gruesome, yet moving love story. Playfully morbid and profoundly candid, an interrogation of Latinidad, womanhood, obsession, and disillusionment, Dreaming of You grapples with the cost of being seen for your truest self., "A feverish story of young adulthood, exploring how fandom and obsession shape how we relate to the world . . . Dreaming of You navigates the complexities of Latinx identity, self-loathing, love, and the loneliness of drifting into adulthood." -Miguel Salazar, Vulture "At the center of this exploration of insecurities, joys, and identity stands Melissa Lozada-Oliva-an unapologetic poet who isn't afraid of the rawness of the mind and is resilient in her writing- so much so that it feels like we're talking to our best friend." -Bianca Perez, Porter House Review A macabre novel in verse of loss, longing, and identity crises following a poet who resurrects pop star Selena from the dead. Melissa Lozada-Oliva's Dreaming of You is an absurd yet heartfelt examination of celebrity worship. A young Latinx poet grappling with loneliness and heartache decides one day to bring Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla back to life. The seance kicks off an uncanny trip narrated by a Greek chorus of gossiping spirits as she journeys through a dead celebrity prom, encounters her shadow self, and performs karaoke in hell. In visceral poems embodying millennial angst, paragraph-long conversations overheard at her local coffeeshop, and unhinged Twitter rants, Lozada-Oliva reveals an eerie, sometimes gruesome, yet moving love story. Playfully morbid and profoundly candid, an interrogation of Latinidad, womanhood, obsession, and disillusionment, Dreaming of You grapples with the cost of being seen for your truest self.

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