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Sons of Salt

Yaccaira Salvatierra
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Raising sons
Religion through feminist perspective
Rethinking Biblical Mary.
Single mothers
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Visual poems
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781960145277
  • Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
  • Publication Date: 31 Oct 2024
  • Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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Description

Winner of the 2025 International Latino Book Award

Long-listed for the Maya Angelou Book Award

Deemed one of the "Best Books for Adults 2024" by the New York Public Library

Volcanic eruptions and waves collide in Yaccaira Salvatierra’s explosive debut collection Sons of Salt, which explores the duality of personal and political landscapes as well as legacies of violence within Mexican-American communities.

Sons of Salt poignantly captures the experiences of mothers who battle for their sons’ wellbeing, particularly when fathers are absent due to systemic oppressions.

Salvatierra’s verse breaks the bones of poetic form to bring attention to the failures of a conceptually western God who has categorically failed to protect His children, and gives birth instead to a god of nature.

Weaving self-made mythology, mourning, and maternal fear into visual and narrative poems, Salvatierra creates a collection that probes the deepest hurt to ensure the holiest redemption.


About Yaccaira Salvatierra
Born in Los Ángeles, California, Yaccaira Salvatierra is a poet, translator, and educator for over 20 years while raising her two sons as single parent.  She received the Dorrit Sibley Award for Poetry, and the Puerto del Sol Poetry Prize. She was awarded the Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship, scholarships for the Napa Valley Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Translator’s Conference, and Macondo.  She is an organizer for the San Francisco International Flor y Canto Literary Festival and lives in Oakland, CA, where she teachers literacy and poetry to youth.

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