Latinx Poetry
A list of recent poetry by Latinx poets selected by librarians at The Seattle Public Library. (Updated September 2020)
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Cipota Under the Moon
In a range of prose poems and evocative lyrics that incorporate both translated and untranslated Spanish text, Castro Luna bridges the emotional and geographical distance between a childhood in El Salvador and an adulthood in the United States. - Poetry Foundation
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Woman Without Shame
The introspective latest from Cisneros (Loose Woman) sweeps through her life with blunt observations and heartfelt prayers.
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Golden Ax
Cortez maps untrodden historical and speculative terrain in poems of stunning breadth and intimacy in this exquisite debut.
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Hotel Oblivion
In these brilliant and ethereal poems, Cruz (Guidebook for the Dead) inhabits an almost-invisible subject: someone who, because of the trappings of class and society is "touched and tendered, but never nourished, never fed."
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Ceballos’s balance of archival footage with imagined voices of the past brings into sharp focus questions of empire, inheritance, and legacy in ways that resonate beyond national and cultural borders. - Poetry Foundation
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Stepmotherland
Holnes's ecstatic debut transforms an immigrant's dislocation into a newly discovered sense of belonging.
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The Hurting Kind
The tender, arresting sixth collection from Limón (The Carrying) is an ode to the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth that characterizes the natural world.
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What Flies Want
A stunning look at the peripheries of womanhood. - The Chicago Review of Books
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Relinquenda
CantoMundo fellow Regalado writes of pain and uncertainty while stranded in the United States by pandemic and separated from her family in El Salvador. - Library Journal
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We Had Our Reasons
A collection of poems created by Ricardo Ruiz in collaboration with other members of his Mexican farm community in Eastern Washington. - publisher's description
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