YOU by Rosa Alcal Paperback Book 9781566897013

From the author of MyOTHER TONGUE comes a new collection of prose poetry exploring the intergenerational inheritance of gendered violenceRosa Alcalamp225aacute choreographs language to understand the body as it quotgathers itself over time to become wholequot recovering the speakers intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches anxieties and lessons of a womans survival Ruminating on daughterhood mothering and the bodys cumulative wisdom YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present