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El Bilingual Catarsis - Wendy S. Aviles
El Bilingual Catarsis
A Collection of Poetry
Wendy Avilés
new degree press
copyright © 2022 Wendy Avilés
All rights reserved.
El Bilingual Catarsis
A Collection of Poetry
ISBN
979-8-88504-909-2 Paperback
979-8-88504-780-7 Kindle Ebook
979-8-88504-259-8 Digital Ebook
This is for every person that inspired, supported, and believed in me. My appreciation for your time is absolute, and this collection is also dedicated to you, who motivated me to sit down and finally put it all together to publish.
CONTENTS
Note from the Author
Chapter 1
XVI
Chapter 2
XVII
Chapter 3
Second-Worst, Yet Transformational
Chapter 4
Se Puede
Chapter 5
Quarantime
Chapter 6
XXI
Acknowledgments
Appendix
Note from the Author
If there is any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something.
– Celine, Before Sunrise
Necesitamos dar descanso a la lengua nombrada minorizada para que podamos de manera más urgente, y más efectiva, abogar a favor de los hablantes minorizados.
"[...] las lenguas no están aisladas, identificadas o definidas en términos léxico-estructurales. Más bien se establecen sobre la base de la identidad y la historia compartida de personas que hablan idiolectos diferentes pero parcialmente superpuestos que, por convención, y sólo cuando se dan ciertas condiciones sociales e históricas, se reúnen bajo un único rótulo lingüístico."
– Ofelia et al. (2015)
Between Santo Domingo and Atlanta, I’ve been writing verses as a way to cope with change. It’s hard to encapsulate within a single or even multiple sentences the inevitable strikes of humaneness that fill us up or break us apart. Poetry is vulnerability—putting your bare face in the eyes of the public, an audience filled with people that know you, and also those who don’t. Sharing your creative, transparent, heavy emotional work is also hard, especially the first time.
Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate (2001–2003), said in his MasterClass that "poetry is the only
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