Bøger af Adela Najarro

"The poems in Variations in Blue address the aftermath of domestic violence through the transformative power of language, leading to healing and empowerment via the author's journey into her Latine/x culture. The poems in Variations in Blue cycle through the traumatic residue of dysfunctional relationships, the complexities of Latinx representation through a series of ekphrastic poems, and reimagine Nicaragua as a homeland set in a volcanic landscape. Each section contains a series of poetic variations on a theme, and the poems reverberate and rotate through the indeterminacy of language. Najarro's Variations in Blue insists that the complexities of experience must be understood one version at a time, each distinctly unfolding its unique design"--

In this chapbook, Najarro's poems and Trenchard's paintings dialog about the feminine as power and life force, where volatility is strength and symbolized through the theme of vulcanism. Najarro's poems and Trenchard's paintings draw on vibrant earth energy so that the written word and image come together in conversation. In addition, theirs is a fiery collaboration between cultures where Latinx and White coexist, harmonize, and create a vision for a world where the vitality of women is highlighted in art.Adela Najarro often writes about her family's emigration from Nicaragua to the United States. She has published three poetry collections, and her work appears in numerous anthologies and literary magazines.Janet Trenchard's abstract paintings often reference geological elements. She views her artistic journey as channeling the earth's feminine power. She has exhibited throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

For its eye of the all-seeing crocodile half in dark waters and half in the prey-light of death and hunger, for its electric rush of love, its gambles with destiny, for its deep knowledge of borderlessness, the slippage of love and dissolution into something like Mystery makes this collection a rare magic. And perhaps, because of its woman eye, illusory skin, bleached colors and its various upside-down taboos where words and love-deeds are "hechas para atrás / pushed aside," I commend this book. It is a surreal mathematics, a travelogue to ancestors, a gypsy's deck of last-breath, plotting flowers ditching toward the sun. A tour de force, magnificent, lovely, sculpted, drenched with Borges, Sexton, Najarro. A radically new Latina verse.Juan Felipe HerreraPoet Laureate of California

"My Childrens" is a chapbook written by Adela Najarro. The chapbook features poems that are accompanied by educational resources to help students think about poetry in a different way. The chapbook is in collaboration with the Puente Project.