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Lima :: Limon

Audiobook
Nonfiction: Poetry
Unabridged   1 hour(s)
Publication date: 09/03/2019

Lima :: Limon

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Audio CD ISBN:9781684576135
Digital Download ISBN:9781684576128

Summary

In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things.

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In her striking second collection, Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Lima :: Limón illuminates both the sweet and the sour of the immigrant experience, of life as a woman in the US and Mexico, and of the politics of the present day. Drawing inspiration from the music of her childhood, her lyrical poems focus on the often-tested resilience of women. Scenters-Zapico writes heartbreakingly about domestic violence and its toxic duality of macho versus hembra, of masculinity versus femininity, and throws into harsh relief the all-too-normalized pain that women endure. Her sharp verse and intense anecdotes brand her poems into the listener; images like the Virgin Mary crying glass tears and a border fence that leaves never-healing scars intertwine as she stares down femicide and gang violence alike. Unflinching, Scenters-Zapico highlights the hardships and stigma immigrants face on both sides of the border, her desire to create change shining through in every line. Lima :: Limón is grounding and urgent, a collection that speaks out against violence and works toward healing.

Reviews/Praise

“In these poems, the border is a powerful metaphor, but it is never merely trope; it is actual, political, damaging.”―The Kenyon Review

“These poems are coyotes that will leave you waterless in the middle of the desert...The Verging Cities pulls no punches, yet it is also tender and intelligent.”―Blue Mesa Review

Author Bio

Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of The Verging Cities, as well as the recipient of the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award for Poetry and the National Association of Chicano/a Studies Book Award.