Thu May 22, 2014
Poet-playwright Aimee Suzara with poet Barbara Jane Reyes
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Reading and Signing of SOUVENIR, the debut book by Poet-Playwright Aimee Suzara
Known for her poetry, theatrical work and performance, author Aimee Suzara has recently released her first full-length poetry book, SOUVENIR (WordTech Editions 2014), and will be doing a reading and signing at Modern Times Books. At this free public event, Suzara will be joined by guest poet Barbara Jane Reyes, award-winning author of Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010).
SOUVENIR reflects a Filipino-American woman’s encounters with narratives of her history – from the “living exhibits” of Filipinos in the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, to the migration of her family across seas and continents to the Wild West. The collection of poems considers what souvenirs are kept as histories are buried, found, and reinvented.
SOUVENIR is a powerful meditation on history and the legacies of race, family and identity. Whether exploring the egregious exhibition of Filipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair or her father’s eccentricities, Aimee Suzara’s poetry is precise, cogent, engaging and formally inventive. Her book adds a necessary and needed portrait to our American mosaic.
- David Mura, author of Turning Japanese
Aimee Suzara is a deep chronicler of our hopes, dreams, pains, and future. Borderless yet profoundly situated, she is the motherjoyscream we must wake up to. We need these poems more than ever.
-Luis J. Rodriguez, author of My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems
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Known for her poetry, theatrical work and performance, author Aimee Suzara has recently released her first full-length poetry book, SOUVENIR (WordTech Editions 2014), and will be doing a reading and signing at Modern Times Books. At this free public event, Suzara will be joined by guest poet Barbara Jane Reyes, award-winning author of Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010).
SOUVENIR reflects a Filipino-American woman’s encounters with narratives of her history – from the “living exhibits” of Filipinos in the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, to the migration of her family across seas and continents to the Wild West. The collection of poems considers what souvenirs are kept as histories are buried, found, and reinvented.
SOUVENIR is a powerful meditation on history and the legacies of race, family and identity. Whether exploring the egregious exhibition of Filipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair or her father’s eccentricities, Aimee Suzara’s poetry is precise, cogent, engaging and formally inventive. Her book adds a necessary and needed portrait to our American mosaic.
- David Mura, author of Turning Japanese
Aimee Suzara is a deep chronicler of our hopes, dreams, pains, and future. Borderless yet profoundly situated, she is the motherjoyscream we must wake up to. We need these poems more than ever.
-Luis J. Rodriguez, author of My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems
Reading and Signing of SOUVENIR, the debut book by Poet-Playwright Aimee Suzara
Known for her poetry, theatrical work and performance, author Aimee Suzara has recently released her first full-length poetry book, SOUVENIR (WordTech Editions 2014), and will be doing a reading and signing at Modern Times Books. At this free public event, Suzara will be joined by guest poet Barbara Jane Reyes, award-winning author of Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010).
SOUVENIR reflects a Filipino-American woman’s encounters with narratives of her history – from the “living exhibits” of Filipinos in the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, to the migration of her family across seas and continents to the Wild West. The collection of poems considers what souvenirs are kept as histories are buried, found, and reinvented.
SOUVENIR is a powerful meditation on history and the legacies of race, family and identity. Whether exploring the egregious exhibition of Filipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair or her father’s eccentricities, Aimee Suzara’s poetry is precise, cogent, engaging and formally inventive. Her book adds a necessary and needed portrait to our American mosaic.
- David Mura, author of Turning Japanese
Aimee Suzara is a deep chronicler of our hopes, dreams, pains, and future. Borderless yet profoundly situated, she is the motherjoyscream we must wake up to. We need these poems more than ever.
-Luis J. Rodriguez, author of My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems
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Known for her poetry, theatrical work and performance, author Aimee Suzara has recently released her first full-length poetry book, SOUVENIR (WordTech Editions 2014), and will be doing a reading and signing at Modern Times Books. At this free public event, Suzara will be joined by guest poet Barbara Jane Reyes, award-winning author of Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010).
SOUVENIR reflects a Filipino-American woman’s encounters with narratives of her history – from the “living exhibits” of Filipinos in the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, to the migration of her family across seas and continents to the Wild West. The collection of poems considers what souvenirs are kept as histories are buried, found, and reinvented.
SOUVENIR is a powerful meditation on history and the legacies of race, family and identity. Whether exploring the egregious exhibition of Filipinos at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair or her father’s eccentricities, Aimee Suzara’s poetry is precise, cogent, engaging and formally inventive. Her book adds a necessary and needed portrait to our American mosaic.
- David Mura, author of Turning Japanese
Aimee Suzara is a deep chronicler of our hopes, dreams, pains, and future. Borderless yet profoundly situated, she is the motherjoyscream we must wake up to. We need these poems more than ever.
-Luis J. Rodriguez, author of My Nature is Hunger: New & Selected Poems
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