Analicia Sotelo
Author
Language
English
Description
Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo's debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.
In Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity-of naiveté, of careless abandon-before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how "far &...