Overview

A bold and tender portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx. Through narrative poems and innovative forms inspired by color theory and elementary school, Orange explores the ripple effects of queerness, lies, and finding yourself in a family. In this visceral new collection, however, the scope of ""family"" expands well beyond the nuclear unit; Noel Quiñones's poems center relationships between friends, cousins, partners, and many other family members. Painting a vivid and fraught portrait of the North Bronx, Quiñones unflinchingly confronts the contradictions at the heart of love, divorce, gender, religion, and community, unpacking the complexities of coming out, divorced parents, and generational trauma. Orange ultimately argues that truth resembles color: something real, yet elusive, and impossible to prove.

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Author:   Noel Quiñones ,  Julian Randall
Publisher:   CavanKerry Press
Imprint:   CavanKerry Press
Dimensions:   Width: 18.40cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781960327208

ISBN 10:   1960327208
Pages:   104
Publication Date:   05 May 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Ms. Frizzle Explains Color Theory I. How to Color Mami The Bronx River Forest The Many Saints of Norwood Divorce Blockbuster Fever You Sang to Me How to Spit Game on Mosholu Parkway Girls Gone Wild Baby It’s Bold Outside | Gelish® The Pumpkin Boy Custody Ms. Frizzle Reads the Tale of La Cucarachita Martina GIRLY! I Tell My Cousin the Truth in 2005 How to Learn the Scholar’s Mate The Science Fair II. Gray Scale Self-Interrogation Monday Night Mass with Complete Citations My First Friend My Neighborhood Map How to Sell Bootleg DVDs and Not Get Caught Ms. Frizzle Chaperones the Bronx Zoo Sleepaway Camp Nocturne [ ]sexual Him Anaphylaxis Denim Wings Overlooking Rochambeau Avenue Monochromatic Red My Last Friend The Middle School Come Up For the Last Time Papi Tells the Truth About 1993 III. Orange Marriage Runway For the First Time Mami Tells the Truth About 1995 Saturation Between Red and Orange thedress In the Company of Men Ms. Frizzle Let’s Me Explain Color Theory Annulment My Best Friend Defines Romance The Burke Bridge Trail The Time Capsule How to Connect Papi Beyond Orange

Reviews

ORANGE is a joyful, heart-thumping, grief-slick, language-sparkling romp through memory and becoming. Every page is humming with the music of what it means to be alive and brown and queer and brilliant in a world that too often forgets to see you whole. Structured around color theory and anchored in a bold love letter to the body’s brightness, these poems navigate family ruptures, first loves, and the ache of moving towards a future full of rowdy song.   -- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Oceanic These poems are patient and visceral, familial and mold-breaking. They don’t expect easy answers, but instead shine light on the liminal space between guilt and innocence, individuality and community, connection and isolation. ORANGE pulses with place and honors that “no two Bronxs are the same.” From the many saints of Norwood to parental monologues clawing at catharsis, this debut is both an archive and a testament. It asks anew the questions we all at some point need to face: Where do I come from? Who has it made me? And who have I made myself?   -- Jon Sands, author of It's Not Magic

Author Information

Noel Quiñones is an Emmy award-winning Nuyorican writer, educator, and speaker from the Bronx. Their work has been published in POETRY, the Boston Review, Poem-a-Day, and Michigan Quarterly Review. They have also received fellowships from Tin House, CantoMundo, Vermont Studio Center, and the Poetry Foundation. They currently live in Chicago and teach with the Chicago Poetry Center.  

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