Lima

<p>BuzzFeed's Books Coming in 2019 That You'll Want To Keep On Your Radar</p> <p>NPR's 2019 Poetry Preview</p> <p>NBC's 8 Excellent Latino Poetry Books for National Poetry Month</p> <p>The Rumpus's Books To Read in 2019</p> <p>Remezcla's 8 Books to Read this Year</p> <p>Bustle's Most Anticipated Books of 2019</p> <p><i>Publishers Weekly's</i> Top 10 Poetry Books To Read For Spring 2019</p> Through a range of forms-tercets prose hybrids lyric strophes and more-the poems in Scenters-Zapico's second collection . . . incisively interrogate the aesthetics of cultural difference. ―<i>Publishers Weekly</i> starred review In her striking second collection Natalie Scenters-Zapico sets her unflinching gaze once again on the borders of things. Lima :: Limón illuminates both the sweet and the sour of the immigrant experience of life as a woman in the U.S. and Mexico and of the politics of the present day. Drawing inspiration from the music of her childhood her lyrical poems focus on the often-tested resilience of women. Scenters-Zapico writes heartbreakingly about domestic violence and its toxic duality of macho versus hembra of masculinity versus femininity and throws into harsh relief the all-too-normalized pain that women endure. Her sharp verse and intense anecdotes brand her poems into the reader; images like the Virgin Mary crying glass tears and a border fence that leaves never-healing scars intertwine as she stares down femicide and gang violence alike. Unflinching Scenters-Zapico highlights the hardships and stigma immigrants face on both sides of the border her desire to create change shining through in every line. Lima :: Limón is grounding and urgent a collection that speaks out against violence and works toward healing.