ANALICIA SOTELO

"Sotelo explores the power of mythologizing personal history in her striking debut, winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize...With humanity and rare honesty, Sotelo finds fresh ways to approach romance, family, and more." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

 

"Virgin introduces readers to a young, Mexican-American feminist narrator who is sarcastic and unafraid, curious and self-discovering, and interested in everything from unrequited love and heartbreak to un-romanticized sex and the historically fraught terrain of virginity, and so much more." - BUSTLE

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"Make 2018 the year you start reading more poetry, and perhaps start with VIRGIN, which gorgeously, sensuously explores the pleasures and problems of the feminine experience. Sotelo's language is as lush and hot as the inside of a woman's mouth; her words can feel like a fever, like your eyes will blister if you star too long at the page...And what a pleasure to be hurt this way, with these words." - NYLON

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"Stunning...It is this reeling dance with her reader that allows Sotelo's collection to move between low and highbrow sbjects, to include poems about barbecues, Giorgio de Chirico, and Greek mythology and never lose speed. Without exception, Virgin is a must-read--and a delightfully gripping way to start poetry in 2018." - THE ARKANSAS INTERNATIONAL

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"...what I love is how, by leaning into the many registers of heartbreak, Sotelo makes something incredibly beautiful. Something that, in its beauty, is a kind of salve." - ROSS GAY

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"A master of metaphor and voice, Sotelo nimbly moves between disparate images—a half-dead tree and a jilted mother; Theseus and Victorian-era rest cures; cherry red cardigans and scarred peaches on the grill—to complicate tropes of feminine rage, joy, desire, and humor." — DANIEL PEÑA

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