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Virgin: Poems | Analicia Sotelo
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Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelos debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininityof naivet, of careless abandonbefore sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how far & wide, / how dark & deep / this frigid female mind can go. A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. A Mexican American fascinator. At every step, Sotelos poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detailgrilled meat, golden habaeros, and burnt sugarbefore delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power, deceit, relationships, and ourselves. Here is what it means to love someone without truly understanding them. Here is what it means to be cruel. And here is what it means to become an artist, of words and of the self. Blistering and gorgeous, Virgin is an audacious act of imaginative self-mythology from one of our most promising young poets.
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hwheaties
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First book of 2019. Poetry. So many tabs. So many lines that took my breath away. So good.

GypsyKat I do this too! 6y
Nute 💕lines that took my breath away💕 6y
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hwheaties
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Next up for poetry!!

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Weaponxgirl
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I'm still new to poetry but I loved this. The imagery was amazing, so much conjured up things I hadn't thought about together. The content too, about a woman coming into herself. Then to top up my love that was growing in sneaks a poem about frida khalo. Not named but you know it's her.
For uk littens this is on #scribd which was a very pleasant surprise.
I'm going to keep on reading at least one poetry book a month so I can find more like this

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tamaria
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“He was the rain: he would come and go,
he was there for everyone.”

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Redwritinghood
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This was a great collection of poems reflecting on how a young woman comes to find her place in the world and love herself. Many of the poems use the Ariadne myth as a basis, but others relate to art and her Mexican American culture.

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Redwritinghood
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A cortado + chocolate croissant + poetry = perfect morning break. There is a bookstore right next door. May have to go there next.

Lacythebookworm Perfect break! 💕 7y
ReadingEnvy I love these poems!! 7y
Redwritinghood @Lacythebookworm I followed this with some book shopping and it made for a lovely morning. 7y
Redwritinghood @ReadingEnvy I am about 1/3 through and am really enjoying them too. 7y
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ReadingEnvy
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AWP haul!

Reviewsbylola Nice!! 7y
saresmoore I love the way these covers coordinate! 7y
ReadingEnvy @saresmoore it‘s like they are talking! 7y
saresmoore (That‘s because they are talking...) 7y
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ReadingEnvy
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Got this collection signed and heard her read

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ReadingEnvy
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February 2018 Reads. Hearts are 5 stars, pencils are 4. Lots of solid reads this month!!

Jess7 Wow! That‘s a lot of books!! #febstats - #ReadingResolutions 7y
Jess7 I want to read Pachinko and An American Marriage 7y
mrozzz Impressive!! 👏🏻 7y
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Austen_Nerd Wow!! amazing!! 👏 7y
Ruthiella I liked Pachinko too! Look forward to hearing what you think of the Ali Smith in detail😀 I will read it (this year?) for sure. 7y
emmaturi Wow! That really is a lot of books! 7y
ReadingEnvy @Ruthiella it's on the next podcast episode! :) 7y
ReadingEnvy @Jess7 both are solid! pachinko took longer for sure. 7y
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ReadingEnvy
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I was hooked from the first poem, "Do You Speak Virgin?" from this impressive debut collection by Analicia Sotelo.

My favorites included "Ariadne's Guide to Getting a Man," "My Mother & the Parable of the Lemons," and "My English Victorian Dating Troubles." eARC from Milkweed - Virgin comes out February 20!

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My_novel_obsession
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In an effort to infuse more poetry into our lives my daughter and I came to see the author of this collection tonight at our wonderful indie bookstore - Brazos Books 📚

MrBook 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y
CindyMyLifeIsLit Are you in Houston? My daughter and I were at Kaboom Books and Becker Books today!! 7y
My_novel_obsession @CindyMyLifeIsLit We are in Houston! I live a little Northeast of the city - are you in the area as well? 7y
CindyMyLifeIsLit @Anovelobsession I‘m Northwest, in Cypress. Small world! 7y
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