“Think pochas sipping gin martinis in lowriders cruising down Who Gives a Fuck Boulevard,” the publisher says. Another debut collection, Heart like a Window, Mouth like a Cliff explores the colonized, culturally assimilated Mexican-American identity. Heart like a Window, Mouth like a Cliff, by Sara Borjas ( Noemi Press, March). Fossils in the Making, her debut poetry collection, takes on our global ecological crisis with a desire to make and be made. Bagdanov worked as an intern with us at the Center for Literary Publishing from 2012 to 2015, and she’s currently a PhD candidate in English literature at UC Davis. Fossils in the Making, by Kristin George Bagdanov ( Black Ocean, April). Some are first efforts, and others are by true stalwarts, but they’re all testaments to how exciting, diverse, and worthy of our attention the literary landscape is in 2019.ġ. So, as one might expect, there is so much incredible poetry (not to mention literary fiction and nonfiction) being published these days.īelow is a list of books from all genres-in alphabetical order by authors’ last names-that I can’t wait to read this year. By Colorado Review Managing Editor Katherine Indermaurĭid you know that the number of people reading poetry in this country has almost doubled since 2013? This could very well be explained by the increased visibility of great poets of color and LGBTQIA poets in recent years.
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