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Winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
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Author: Nathan Xavier Osorio
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Imprint: University of Pittsburgh Press
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780822948377
ISBN 10: 0822948370
Pages: 88
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
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Format: Paperback
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Reviews
"""In his first book, Nathan Xavier Osorio doesn't think about immigration, family, and capitalism--he thinks through these subjects, imbuing them with a lyrical intelligence that refutes idealization and answers and isolation. Querida is a spectacular book that demands and rewards multiple readings."" --Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine ""Memory is a guiding force in Nathan Osorio's stunning debut, Querida. From the opening, single-sentence tour-de-force of a poem to sonnet-sequences throughout, Osorio's formal agility and singular voice takes hold of our attention and never lets it go."" --Shara McCallum, author of No Ruined Stone ""Nathan Xavier Osorio's Querida leads the reader through a series of hymns, songs, and prayers that give voice to the question of how we are formed by what we are born into. The mark of inheritance is presented, repeated, worked through, and returned to--as it is slowly absorbed into the body of the text. Inheritance is the very matter from which this exquisite debut collection derives."" --Cynthia Cruz, author of Hotel Oblivion"
In his first book, Nathan Xavier Osorio doesn't think about immigration, family, and capitalism--he thinks through these subjects, imbuing them with a lyrical intelligence that refutes idealization and answers and isolation. Querida is a spectacular book that demands and rewards multiple readings.--Eduardo C. Corral, author of Guillotine Memory is a guiding force in Nathan Osorio's stunning debut, Querida. From the opening, single-sentence tour-de-force of a poem to sonnet-sequences throughout, Osorio's formal agility and singular voice takes hold of our attention and never lets it go.--Shara McCallum, author of No Ruined Stone Nathan Xavier Osorio's Querida leads the reader through a series of hymns, songs, and prayers that give voice to the question of how we are formed by what we are born into. The mark of inheritance is presented, repeated, worked through, and returned to--as it is slowly absorbed into the body of the text. Inheritance is the very matter from which this exquisite debut collection derives.--Cynthia Cruz, author of Hotel Oblivion
Author Information
Nathan Xavier Osorio is the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Poetry Society of America's 2020 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry, translations, and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in BOMB, the Offing, Boston Review, Public Books, Notre Dame Review, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. His writing and teaching have been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the Kenyon Review, and the Poetry Foundation. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.
