{"product_id":"letters-to-a-young-brown-girl-paperback","title":"Letters to a Young Brown Girl - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBarbara Jane Reyes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of color with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Brown Girl of these poems is fed up with being shushed, with being constantly told how foreign and unattractive and unwanted she is. She's flipping tables and throwing chairs. She's raising her voice. She's keeping a sharp focus on the violences committed against her every day, and she's writing through the depths of her \"otherness\" to find beauty and even grace amidst her rage. Simultaneously looking into the mirror and out into the world, Reyes exposes the sensitive nerve-endings of life under patriarchy as a visible immigrant woman of color as she reaches towards her unflinching center.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of five previous collections of poetry: \u003ci\u003eGravities of Center\u003c\/i\u003e (Arkipelago Books, 2003), \u003ci\u003e Poeta en San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e (Tinfish Press, 2006), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, \u003ci\u003eDiwata\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA, 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, \u003ci\u003eTo Love as Aswang \u003c\/i\u003e(PAWA, Inc. Publications, 2015), \u003ci\u003eInvocation to Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e (City Lights, 2017), and \u003ci\u003eLetters to a Young Brown Girl \u003c\/i\u003e(BOA, 2020). She is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco's Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, CA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 72\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.9 x 6.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 22, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779388276799,"sku":"9781950774173","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/samiestore.shop\/products\/letters-to-a-young-brown-girl-paperback","provider":"Samie","version":"1.0","type":"link"}