Latinx Poetry
A list of recent poetry by Latinx poets selected by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. (Updated September 2020)
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Antes que isla es volcán: poemas
The emboldening tour de force from Rivera (Poems for the Nation) illuminates tyranny in his native Puerto Rico and reimagines a decolonized future.
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Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking
An immense tenderness underlies Salazar's standout first collection. The poems probe the ever-presence of history, family, place, religion, and grief insisting on multidimensionality and the complicated ways the aforementioned entwine with us, for better and worse. - Library Journal
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Diaries of A Terrorist
Alongside its uncompromising portrait of injustice Diaries of a Terrorist also offers audacious glimmers of hope. - Poetry Foundation
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Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either
Tirado fuses personal heritage and colonial history in poems that often center around the amalgamated site of the speaker’s body. - Poetry Foundation
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If This Is the Age We End Discovery
The powerful and provocative second collection from Ben-Oni tackles major existential issues--creation, nullification, personal experience, objective truth--with grace, humor, and linguistic flair.
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Written After A Massacre in the Year 2018
Borzutzky’s arresting writing sings and stuns as it addresses difficult, painful truths.
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My Book of the Dead
The critical spirit of Xicanisma animates her latest poetry collection as she interrogates these ideas with renewed vigor. - Booklist
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Floaters
The visionary latest from Espada (Vivas to Those Who Have Failed) combines a sharp political awareness with a storyteller's knack for finding beauty and irony in the current moment.
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Gentefication
In broiling language blending Spanish and English, vernacular and lyric often presented in lists, López aims to reclaim his culture from the gringo dominance that distorted the coming-of-age he vividly depicts here. - Library Journal
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Machete
The perceptive third collection from Morin (A Larger Country) asks readers to go beyond seeing the world at face value, offering vivid descriptions and cutting political critique.
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