Description

In The Book of Wounded Sparrows, his second full-length collection of poetry, Octavio Quintanilla sifts through the wreckage left in the pursuit of the American Dream. This is a book within a book, a memory within a memory, a future within a past, and most urgentlya journey to reclaim the self for what it was and to proclaim what it could be. Nested within one another, the English and Spanish, the poetry and art, create layers of obscuration and revelation, unburying the fractured landscapes left in the wake of geographic, emotional, and familial dislocation.

In this collection, Quintanilla finds the language and the form to write about the loss that often happens when one migrates from one country to another: the loss of family, the loss of culture, and the loss of language. Of course, this book is more than thatmore than a narrative of lossit is a book of poetic reclamation, of poetic imagination, of finding new and interesting ways to tell a story, a love of language at its center, so as to reclaim a history of trauma and mythologize the self.

Author: Octavio Quintanilla
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 09/01/2024
Series: Con[text]ual
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 7.00h x 8.90w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9781680033663
Language: English