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- ISBN
- 9781680032444
- Book Title
- Tortillera : Poems
- Book Series
- The Trp Southern Poetry Breakthrough Ser.
- Publisher
- Texas Review Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publication Year
- 2021
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- Caribbean & Latin American, American / Hispanic American, Lgbt
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 118 Pages
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Publisher
Texas Review Press
ISBN-10
1680032445
ISBN-13
9781680032444
eBay Product ID (ePID)
12050398090
Product Key Features
Book Title
Tortillera : Poems
Number of Pages
118 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Caribbean & Latin American, American / Hispanic American, Lgbt
Publication Year
2021
Genre
Poetry
Book Series
The Trp Southern Poetry Breakthrough Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-041526
Reviews
"An unflinching, delicious, and fierce anthem to Cuban-American and queer identities, Tortillera reclaims the homophobic slur of its title, engaging and subverting the canonical tradition of the love poem. Language, in its topographies and powers and failures, lies at the heart of these poems' investigations: Moro writes, "of loss / the third language / we speak at home." Tortillera confronts 'poverty's rumble,' familial connections, sometimes fraught, sometimes endearingly tender. 'Sifting through the rubble' of fragmented romantic and parental relationships, the book is brilliant in its critique of beauty standards and machismo. I love Caridad Moro's work, which reverberates with flavors of Miami--guarapo, harina con huevo frito, yuca, lechón--these are poems I admire and applaud, poems I read and reread with a ferocious appetite." --Jenny Molberg, author of Refusal, "In Tortillera by Caridad Moro-Gronlier, readers follow a Cuban-American woman as she tries to understand her sexuality and challenges the expectations of her close-knit community of family and friends. Though this may seem a heavy topic, the collection offers moments of levity. . . . These poems are singular and transgressive." -- Ruben Quesada in Harvard Review Online, "'I wasn't la niña bonita / my parents wanted,' says the speaker early on. 'I was the mouthy one'--and what a ride-of-a-book this is, our narrator 'croon[ing] words on command' to flesh out a sometimes heart-wrenching journey . . . from '[lying] within a canyon of want' to being 'talked into a pool hall / strung out on tequila and cafecito.' Let's call it deliciously transgressive--where someone 'poured red velvet into my glass' for the sake of this 'infection we call love' that may lead one to utter: 'the ache that is your name' and experience the 'warble // of loss.' In short, Tortillera 'is a thing of beauty / but not in the way / of Barbie dolls'!" -- Francisco Aragón , author of After Rubén, "An unflinching, delicious, and fierce anthem to Cuban-American and queer identities, Tortillera reclaims the homophobic slur of its title, engaging and subverting the canonical tradition of the love poem. Language, in its topographies and powers and failures, lies at the heart of these poems' investigations: Moro writes, "of loss / the third language / we speak at home." Tortillera confronts 'poverty's rumble,' familial connections, sometimes fraught, sometimes endearingly tender. 'Sifting through the rubble' of fragmented romantic and parental relationships, the book is brilliant in its critique of beauty standards and machismo. I love Caridad Moro's work, which reverberates with flavors of Miami--guarapo, harina con huevo frito, yuca, lechón--these are poems I admire and applaud, poems I read and reread with a ferocious appetite." -- Jenny Molberg , author of Refusal, "'I wasn't la niña bonita / my parents wanted,' says the speaker early on. 'I was the mouthy one'--and what a ride-of-a-book this is, our narrator 'croon[ing] words on command' to flesh out a sometimes heart-wrenching journey . . . from '[lying] within a canyon of want' to being 'talked into a pool hall / strung out on tequila and cafecito.' Let's call it deliciously transgressive--where someone 'poured red velvet into my glass' for the sake of this 'infection we call love' that may lead one to utter: 'the ache that is your name' and experience the 'warble // of loss.' In short, Tortillera 'is a thing of beauty / but not in the way / of Barbie dolls'!" --Francisco Aragón, author of After Rubén, "In this arresting collection, Caridad Moro-Gronlier renders a vivid and astounding portrait of her womanhood with all its complex intersections and contradictions: her loving resistance against cultural expectations as a daughter of Cuban exiles; her fraught triumph over misogyny; her traumatic healing from sexual assault, her joyful fears of motherhood; and her terrifying courage of coming out and embracing her sexuality. Moro-Gronlier's unflinching yet vulnerable voice joins the chorus of luminaries the likes of June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldúa, together singing rebellion in harmony with love." -- Richard Blanco , Presidential Inaugural Poet, author of How to Love a Country, "Gorgeous, powerful, arresting, and fierce, this collection explores Cuban-American and queer identity in a country and world that sometimes fails to accept either. Moro-Gronlier beautifully explores the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexual orientation, while gifting us deliciously lush and potent poems that take on the wrongs of racism, problematic parental relationships, misogyny, and sexual assault. With each stanza, the poet steps more and more fully into her most authentic self." -- The Eric Hoffer Award, "In this arresting collection, Caridad Moro-Gronlier renders a vivid and astounding portrait of her womanhood with all its complex intersections and contradictions: her loving resistance against cultural expectations as a daughter of Cuban exiles; her fraught triumph over misogyny; her traumatic healing from sexual assault, her joyful fears of motherhood; and her terrifying courage of coming out and embracing her sexuality. Moro-Gronlier's unflinching yet vulnerable voice joins the chorus of luminaries the likes of June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, and Gloria Anzaldúa, together singing rebellion in harmony with love." --Richard Blanco, Presidential Inaugural Poet, author of How to Love a Country, "The poems in Caridad Moro-Gronlier's moving and multi-valent debut Tortillera travel great distances, within the self and beyond. By turns lyric and narrative, tender chronicle meets tough reckoning, the speaker of this unflinching memoir-in-verse plumbs 'the canyon of want' as daughter, wife, mother, and ultimately, as the authentic queer woman she was meant to become--'buried for eons, glorious, finally found.'" -- Julie Marie Wade , author of When I Was Straight and Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing, "The poems in Caridad Moro-Gronlier's moving and multi-valent debut Tortillera travel great distances, within the self and beyond. By turns lyric and narrative, tender chronicle meets tough reckoning, the speaker of this unflinching memoir-in-verse plumbs 'the canyon of want' as daughter, wife, mother, and ultimately, as the authentic queer woman she was meant to become--'buried for eons, glorious, finally found.'" --Julie Marie Wade, author of When I Was Straight and Just an Ordinary Woman Breathing
Dewey Edition
23/eng/20220914
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Table Of Content
Entry. I. Unpacking the Suitcase; Analfabeta; Arbolito in el Exilio, 1979; Topography; Inheritance; Wet Foot, Dry Foot, 2002; What I Should Have Said, Instead; Compulsion: A Chronology 18; Puta; Quinceañera; What the White Girl Asked at Our 20th High School Reunion; II. At Least I Didn't Rape You; Somnambulism 101: Never Wake a Talker; Cuban-American Lexicon; Visionware; What They Don't Tell You at the Baby Shower; Waiting to Be Discharged from the Maternity Ward; Fourth Quarter; Grilled 38; That Night at the Rack 'Em Room; At That Motel on 8th Street; Labor Day, 2003, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach; The Perfect Dress; Veteran's Day, 2005, Lincoln Road, Miami Beach; For My Lover, Returning to Her Husband; What You Learn at the Track; Doing Without; Like Finger Sandwiches for Sumo Wrestlers; Raisins in the Stuffing; Pruning Black-Eyed Susans on the Day of Our Divorce; Coming Out to Mami; III. For Marlene, Who Asked Why I Switched Teams; Contemplation of a Name; I Did Not Take My Camera to Paris; Why Can't You Just Listen?; The Really Good Dutch Oven; Memento Mori; I Don't Eat Plums Anymore; Uncoupled; Taking the Sunrise Tunnel; The Gift; When You Ask about Karen; What You Called to Say at Lunch; Ink; Pulse: A Memorial in Driftwood, Cannon Beach, OR; Solving the Crossword; Notes; Acknowledgments.
Synopsis
Tortillera chronicles the life of a Cuban-American daughter, wife and mother as she dismantles the existence she was taught to want in order to evolve into the queer woman she was born to be. Told through intimate, narrative poems, the speaker's life "on the hyphen" is laid bare as she grapples with the effect language, place, and cultural expectations have on sexuality, gender and identity. The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Florida, The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Florida The word tortillera means lesbian in Español. The moniker is familiar to most Spanish speaking cultures, but especially particular to the Cuban experience. In most Cuban-American households to be called a tortillera (whether one is one or not) is the gravest of insults, the basest of adjectives, a cat call that whips through the air like a lash whose only intention is to wound, to scar. Many a first-generation, Cubanita (the ones who are into other girls, anyway) has suffered, denied, wailed over the loaded term, but in Caridad Moro-Gronlier's debut collection, Tortillera , she not only applies the term to herself, she owns it, drapes it over her shoulders and heralds her truth through candid, unflinching poems that address the queer experience of coming out while Cuban. The first half of the book immediately plunges the reader into the speaker's Cuban-American life on-the-hyphen through vivid, first person narratives that draw one in, making the reader privy to the moments that mold the speaker's experience: marginalization at a teacher-parent conference; the socioeconomic distinctions at assorted Quinceañera celebrations; a walk down the aisle toward divorce amid a back drop of wedding registries and Phen-Phen fueled weight-loss; post-partum depression; a peek into a No-Tell motel that does tell of the affair she embarks upon with her first female lover; the agony of divorce vs. the headiness of sex and lust; the evolution of an identity in verse. Part reckoning, part renewal, part redemption, part rebirth, the poems in Tortillera come clean, but more than that, they guide, reveal and examine larger considerations: the role of language on gender its subsequent roles, the heartrending consequences of compulsory heterosexuality, as well as the patriarchal stamp emblazoned on the Cuban diaspora. The work contained in Tortillera befits its audacious title--bold, original and utterly without shame. ... from "Unpacking the Suitcase" Once a year you watch West Side Story on the screen of your parents' 1974 Zenith and catch a glimpse of yourself on television. You are the first born gringa in the family. Your English is perfect, but you're not like your friends. You don't go to slumber parties or play-dates, you don't join the Brownies or take ballet, but once a year you get to live in Technicolor and root for the Sharks because they speak Spanish, too.
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