Description
In her new collection Michelle Valladares’ poetry blasts open the door to a truly new world, her new world, by way of the old. A timely and original story forms the spine of this book, with its quietly fierce narrator, one who challenges the narrow box of gender and explores a feminist identity in a way that is as startling as it is fresh. A trigger warning might be called for, but only if the reader is unprepared to be shaken and amazed by the insistence of survival found here. In these impossibly challenging times read this book for all it offers: history, hope, clarity, and most surprising of all––peace.
– Elaine Sexton, author of The Post Office: An Opera in Poems
With the personal awareness of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the modernity of Baudelaire, Michelle Valladares’s map of Her new world is a triumph. A poetic cartography in which experience has decanted into essential poems. Valladares has a soothing and powerful voice that takes you around the world with intimacy and honesty; with chants for justice and memory; with traces of a consciousness beyond the limits of time and space; with a revealing gaze that, most certainly, was discovered in childhood while reading the map traced in her skin and in her journeys.
– Carlos Aguasaco
Author of Cardinal in my Window with a Mask on its Beak, winner of the 2021 Ambroggio Prize
and The New York City Subway Poems
