"A Blessing the Boats Selection." Includes bibliographical references (page 65).
Contents:
[You have come to me]. Brown Girl Fields Many Questions -- Brown Girl Ghost -- Brown Girl Looks in the Mirror -- Brown Girl Consumed -- Brown Girl Beginning -- Brown Girl Breaking -- Brown Girl Hustle -- Brown Girl Glossary of Terms -- Brown Girl Manifesto: #allpinayeverything -- BROWN GIRL MIXTAPE -- Track: "Gaze," Sweetback, feat. Amel Larrieux (1996) -- Track: "My Life," Mary. J. Blige (1994) -- Track: "Blackwinged Bird," Emm Gryner (2006) -- Track: "A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)," Romeo Void (1984) -- Track: "Ice Age," How to Destroy Angels (2012) -- Track: "Dahil Sa Iyo" Pinay (1998) -- Track: "Orange Moon," Erykah Badu (2000) -- Track: "Drop," Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions (2001) -- Track: "You're the One," Fanny (1971) -- Track: "Blood Moon," Low Leaf (2016) -- Track: "Sonrisa," Si*Se (2001) -- Track: "Firewoman," Barbie Almabis (2005) -- Track: "Devoted," Julie Plug (2001) -- Track: "Kadkadduwa," Grace Nono (2008) -- Track: "Love, Peace and Harmony," Bow Wow Wow (1983) -- Track: "A Little Bit of Ecstasy," Jocelyn Enriquez (1997) -- Track: "Fall on You," June and Jean Millington (2011) -- Track: "Soulful Dress," Sugar Pie DeSanto (1964) -- Track: "Bad Girls," M.I.A. (2010) -- Track: "US," Ruby Ibarra, feat. Rocky Rivera, Klassy, and Faith Santilla (2017) -- LETTERS TO A YOUNG BROWN GIRL -- [They will say, your language lacks finesse] -- [After all this, you still ask me] -- [Remember those diaries we were gifted] -- [What is there to fear in your silence.] -- [What if nobody cares, except your brown sister] -- [Do you ever get sick of trying] -- [What if nobody reads you] -- [What if I told you that you don't have to do as you're told.] -- [We know it's not about not speaking English] -- [You have come to me].
Summary:
"Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector. The Brown Girl of these poems is fed up with being shushed, with being constantly told how foreign and unattractive and unwanted she is. She's flipping tables and throwing chairs. She's raising her voice. She's keeping a sharp focus on the violences committed against her every day, and she's writing through the depths of her "otherness" to find beauty and even grace amidst her rage. Simultaneously looking into the mirror and out into the world, Reyes exposes the sensitive nerve-endings of life under patriarchy as a visible immigrant woman of color as she reaches towards her unflinching center."--Back cover. "Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness"-- Provided by publisher.
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