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Author_Lola Haskins
autobiographical
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contemporary poetry collection
culture
culture shock
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experiece
family
fear
finding your way
foreign
foreign city
heritage
identity
immigrant
in modern america
inspiring
journey
Latina
latina poet
losing fear
mexican author
mexico
new language
personal experience
poems
Poetry
self discovery
travel
true self
united states
Product details
- ISBN 9781586540609
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 12 Aug 2021
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book is about Latina identity, a timely subject in today's America. The author’s journey begins as she, full of love for Mexico and its culture despite her closest blood connection being her bisabuela, boards a bus. She starts out determined: “Yes foreign is a word for fear. Yes I am coming home.” But then, because “it is afraid, staying in a language where you were not born,” she retreats, hiding first behind we, then behind masks. But when it becomes clear that the masks are her true self, she loses her fear, and barrels ahead as I, fully committed, all the way to the end.
Lola Haskins has published twelve books of poetry and three of prose. Her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Hudson Review, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, London Review of Books, and elsewhere, as well as having been broadcast on BBC and NPR. Among her honors are the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from Poetry Society of America. She currently serves as Honorary Chancellor of the Florida State Poets Association.
