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A review by miakaiko
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color by
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A very wide range of stories. Some felt very personal to an experience I didn't relate to, which is fine. Although I did find some that really resonated with some of my own personal experiences as well.
These were some of the lines that I want to highlight:
"The most beautiful part of your body is where it's headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world." - Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong, By Ocean Vuong
"a silhouette on a darker sea- for seasons I was faceless
trying to swallow constellations, to roll a star-map on my tongue.
Stars shone through the holes of my body."
- A boy with Baleen teeth, by Rajiv Mohabir
"when the colonizers emptied the villages, they lined up the men to be executed in front of their families, raped the women & planted pine trees over the wreckage. they were miles away from my teta's town. just far enough so no one could hear the screams. "
-Inheritance, by George Abraham
"I am hell, bitch. ...
Neptune is bitch-sobbing in my rearview, and I got my running shoes on and all this sky that's all mine. Fuck your order. Fuck your time. I realigned the cosmos. I chaosed all the hell you have yet to feel."
-Pluto Shits on the universe, by Fatimah Asghar
"even when they strapped my arms to my sides and claimed I was incurable.
Then I woke this morning, no longer just that crazy lesbian footnoted in the texts. But a feminist who's still quite angry."
-To the American Psychiatric Association - 1973, by Jewelle Gomez
These were some of the lines that I want to highlight:
"The most beautiful part of your body is where it's headed. & remember, loneliness is still time spent with the world." - Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong, By Ocean Vuong
"a silhouette on a darker sea- for seasons I was faceless
trying to swallow constellations, to roll a star-map on my tongue.
Stars shone through the holes of my body."
- A boy with Baleen teeth, by Rajiv Mohabir
"when the colonizers emptied the villages, they lined up the men to be executed in front of their families, raped the women & planted pine trees over the wreckage. they were miles away from my teta's town. just far enough so no one could hear the screams. "
-Inheritance, by George Abraham
"I am hell, bitch. ...
Neptune is bitch-sobbing in my rearview, and I got my running shoes on and all this sky that's all mine. Fuck your order. Fuck your time. I realigned the cosmos. I chaosed all the hell you have yet to feel."
-Pluto Shits on the universe, by Fatimah Asghar
"even when they strapped my arms to my sides and claimed I was incurable.
Then I woke this morning, no longer just that crazy lesbian footnoted in the texts. But a feminist who's still quite angry."
-To the American Psychiatric Association - 1973, by Jewelle Gomez