{"product_id":"relinquenda-isbn-9780807007105","title":"Relinquenda","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 4-part poetry collection that explores women’s roles in familial dynamics, immigration, and El Salvador’s civil war while reflecting on the death of the poet’s father\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA National Poetry Series winner, selected by the celebrated poet Reginald Dwayne Betts\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen COVID-19 broke and the United States closed the border to travel, Alexandra Lytton Regalado was separated from family back in El Salvador. She wrote \u003ci\u003eRelinquenda\u003c\/i\u003e entirely during lockdown as a meditation on cancer, the passing of her father, and the renewed significance of community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe central part of the collection focuses on her father during his 6-year struggle with cancer and considers how his stoicism, alcoholism, and hermitage might serve as mirror and warning. In contrast, she dedicates other poems to what it means for daughters, mothers, and wives to care for another as reflected in her relationships with the men in her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSituated in the tropical landscapes of Miami, Florida and El Salvador, the poems also negotiate the meaning of home, reflecting on immigration and the ties between United States and El Salvador 30 years after her birth country’s decade-long civil war.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a lyrical and often bilingual voice, Regalado explores the impermanence and the body, communication and inarticulation, and the need to let go in order to heal regrets.Relinquenda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMamá Tacuazín\u003cbr\u003eHija, an Inheritance\u003cbr\u003eThe Giantess\u003cbr\u003eVideofeed from the American Embassy of El Salvador\u003cbr\u003eI Prided Myself on Being Aguantadora\u003cbr\u003eEl Puente Que Nos Une\u003cbr\u003eA Family History of Alcoholism\u003cbr\u003eCavities Are Inherited\u003cbr\u003eElegy with Wisdom Teeth\u003cbr\u003eHow to Crack an Egg\u003cbr\u003eHands Just Like Two Balloons\u003cbr\u003eHacer de Tripas Corazón\u003cbr\u003eCaracol\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eII.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat My Father Taught Me About Black Holes\u003cbr\u003eProbably the Most My Father Has Ever Said to Me\u003cbr\u003eThe Hero Myth\u003cbr\u003eDrownproofing\u003cbr\u003eInvasive\u003cbr\u003eVesper Bells\u003cbr\u003eWhat My Father Taught Me About Evolution\u003cbr\u003eEscape Room\u003cbr\u003eTurning the Stone, Contrapuntal\u003cbr\u003ePortrait of My Father X Days Before Dying\u003cbr\u003eConcierto de Aranjuez\u003cbr\u003eThe Garden of Earthly Delights\u003cbr\u003eHesperides\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd Per Se And\u003cbr\u003eÁnima, Silueta de Cohetes: The Night I Met Him\u003cbr\u003eWhen We Were Long-Distance Lovers\u003cbr\u003eMarginalia of \u003ci\u003eLa Vita Nuova\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTin Anniversary\u003cbr\u003eDo You Know How Ugly You Are to Me Right Now?\u003cbr\u003eHiking Through a Slot Canyon\u003cbr\u003eMarriage as Tributary: What’s Left in the Bend of May\u003cbr\u003eBufo Lovesong\u003cbr\u003eBlank Card\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStalemate\u003cbr\u003eCaravana Migrante\u003cbr\u003ePentimento\u003cbr\u003eHermitage\u003cbr\u003eTo My Reflection as I Wash Dishes\u003cbr\u003eVanitas\u003cbr\u003eFive American Sentences\u003cbr\u003eVerano, El Repunte\u003cbr\u003eWhat My Father Taught Me About Time Travel\u003cbr\u003eThe Art Is Knowing When to Stop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eSpecial Thanks\u003c\/i\u003e“A very moving and profound book by one of the most significant LGBTQ+ voices coming from Latin America.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Morning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Resilient, introspective, and reverent.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eRelinquenda\u003c\/i\u003e is a rarity in that, in one book, it contains multiplicity of longings and reckonings. Alexandra Regalado is poet as historian, and poet as that family member we all have who keeps the names in whatever holy book we name, the one who has the photo albums—and more than that, who we gather around when they begin to sing our stories.”\u003cbr\u003e—Reginald Dwayne Betts\u003cb\u003eAlexandra Lytton Regalado\u003c\/b\u003e is author, editor, or translator of more than 15 Central American-themed books. She is also the cofounder and codirector of Editorial Kalina. Her poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eMatria\u003c\/i\u003e, won the St. Lawrence Book Award. She is a CantoMundo fellow, winner of the Coniston Prize, and her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Academy of American Poets, Narrative, Gulf Coast, and Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e among others. 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