peminology

PEMINOLOGY Published by Paloma Press ISBN 9781387483686 Melinda Luisa de Jesús's debut collection of poems comes from a space of longing rebellion grief love poetics and politics. Bold unafraid and uncompromising peminology carves out a space for de Jesús' vision and her generation of Filipinas in immigrant America. She speaks in multiple voices and registers as a daughter to a daughter as a mother to a mother as a storyteller drudging up a past and confronting fiercely the present. peminology is poetic auto ethnography. It must be read. It must be heard. It must be listened to. This is Asian-America. This is post-Trump's America. This is the America we live in. -Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt author of The Postcolonial Citizen: The Intellectual Migrant