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ancestral voices
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bilingualism
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code-switching
diaspora
dispora
domestic violence
domestic violence recovery
ekphrastic
ekphrastic poetry
empowerment
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essays and photographs
healing
healing through poetry
Hispanic
homeland
immigration
inventive narrative
language
Latina
Latino
Latino/a
Latinoa
Latinx
Latinx culture
Latinx representation
Letras Latinas Series
literary editor
magic realism
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan
Nicaraguan American
Nicaraguan heritage
personal and cultural identity
poetics
poetry
poetry collections
postmodernism
prose poems
rainforest
recovery
social justice
Spanglish
spousal abuse
trauma and transformation
volcanic
volcanic imagery
volcano
volcanoes
Product details
- ISBN 9781636282749
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 01 May 2025
- Publisher: Red Hen Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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AUTHOR OF 2024 INT’L LATINO BOOK AWARD HONORABLE MENTION, VOLCANIC INTERRUPTIONS • CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL RECOGNIZED ESTABLISHED ARTIST FOR CENTRAL CALIFORNIA REGION
“This poetry collection is heart-led, a feast for the eyes, ears, and soul.”—Odilia Galván Rodríguez • “Myths and loss, yearnings and magic”—Cristina García
The poems in Variations in Blue address the aftermath of domestic violence through the transformative power of language, leading to healing and empowerment via the author’s journey into her Latine/x culture.
The poems in Variations in Blue cycle through the traumatic residue of dysfunctional relationships, the complexities of Latinx representation through a series of ekphrastic poems, and reimagine Nicaragua as a homeland set in a volcanic landscape. Each section contains a series of poetic variations on a theme, and the poems reverberate and rotate through the indeterminacy of language. Najarro’s Variations in Blue insists that the complexities of experience must be understood one version at a time, each distinctly unfolding its unique design.
Adela Najarro is a poet with a social consciousness who is working on a novel. She serves on the board of directors for Círculo de poetas and Writers and works with the Latine/x community nationwide, promoting the intersection of creative writing and social justice. Her extended family left Nicaragua and arrived in San Francisco during the 1940s; after the fall of the Somoza regime, the last of the family settled in the Los Angeles area. She is the author of four poetry collections: Split Geography, Twice Told Over, My Childrens, and Volcanic Interruptions, a chapbook that includes Janet Trenchard's artwork. The 2024 Int'l Latino Book Awards designated Volcanic Interruptions as an Honorable Mention in the Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award category. The California Arts Council has recognized her as an established artist for the Central California Region and appointed her as an Individual Artist Fellow. She currently resides off the coast near Santa Cruz, CA.
