These poems that chatter, connect, and copulate have been written with the precise hands of a poet who by her very nature multiplies and easily welcomes us in. I can't read the poem 'Foreign' without tears welling up for its truth-telling and in a way that's absolutely unique to this poet, and it's hardly the only poem in this collection that demonstrates Gutiérrez y Muhs is a curandera of poetry, a proprietor of myth. I'm startled to find in these poems so much that has been lost. On a quest for a currency of culture, she also gives readers a currency of love.
Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs (26 de noviembre 1959), es investigadora, académica y poeta chicana. Creció en México y recibió su nombre de la poeta chile Gabriela Mistral. Cuenta con dos licenciaturas de Occidental College, en español y francés, así como dos especializaciones en Antropología y Sociología, así como un doctorado en español en estudios latinoamericanos y US Latinx/Chicanx, por la Universidad de Stanford. Recibió una beca de estudios de posgrado de Rotary International para estudiar teatro ...
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