Paper Birds

<p>Paper Birds: Feather by Feather / Pájaros de papel: Pluma por pluma is a bilingual poetry collection in English and Spanish by the recipient of the Tomás Rivera Book Award Sonia Gutiérrez with translations by Francisco Bustos. <span style=color: rgba(14 52 90 1)>Paper Birds: Feather by Feather / Pájaros de papel: Pluma por pluma received an honrable Mention The Juan Felipe Herrera Best Poetry Book Award-One Author-Bilingual from the International Latino Book Awards. </span></p><p><br></p><p>Sonia Gutiérrez's poems dive into the blue/turquoise feathers of life along the border within the cultural waves of Raza tumult and celebration; her poems strike the bone like drumsticks. These poems pat the heart like a mother's loving hand lock arms with sisters and brothers like a fellow guerillista she sings from the blood like the ocean waves the shore she spirals her poetic magic until transformation occurs and we are changed-bravo!</p><p><span style=color: rgba(112 117 122 1)>-</span>Jimmy Santiago Baca author of No Enemies: Poems</p><p><br></p><p>Sonia Gutiérrez writes visceral magical poems of power and grace. She speaks to legacies homage and justice. The Spanglish translations weave beautifully with the English into a tapestry of important questions for our country and our time. Paper Birds: Feather by Feather is a gift of necessary heat music and ultimately joy.</p><p><span style=color: rgba(112 117 122 1)>-</span>Lee Herrick Poet Laureate of California and author of Scar and Flower</p><p><br></p>