Invocation to Daughters
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Description
Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.
"Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into 'capital, collateral, damaged soul.' However, the women that appear throughout the book are not merely victims; in Reyes's radical cosmology, these women—these daughters—are rebels, saints, revolutionaries, and torchbearers, 'sharp-tongued, willful.' This book is a call to arms against oppressive languages, systems, and traditions."––Publishers Weekly, starred review
Invocation to Daughters is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish, in meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Barbara Jane Reyes unleashes the colonized tongue in a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity.
ISBN
9780872867475
Publication Date
2017
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
City
City Lights Publishers
Keywords
feminism, poetry, imperialism, colonialism, victims of brutality, Filipina studies, pinay
Disciplines
Asian History | Poetry | Race, Ethnicity and Post-Colonial Studies | Women's Studies
Recommended Citation
Reyes, Barbara Jane, "Invocation to Daughters" (2017). All USF Faculty Authored Books. 15.
https://repository.usfca.edu/faculty_books_all/15
