{"id":141324,"date":"2018-04-23T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=141324"},"modified":"2018-04-23T10:11:15","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:11:15","slug":"poetry-recommendation-virgin-analicia-sotelo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=141324","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Recommendation: Virgin – Analicia Sotelo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\"\"“Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo\u2019s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman.<\/p>\n

In\u00a0Virgin<\/strong><\/a>, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity\u2015of naivet\u00e9, of careless abandon\u2015before sharply exploring the intelligence and fortitude of women, how \u201cfar & wide, \/ how dark & deep \/ this frigid female mind can go.\u201d A schoolgirl hopelessly in love. A daughter abandoned by her father. A seeming innocent in a cherry-red cardigan, lurking at the margins of a Texas barbeque. A contemporary Ariadne with her monstrous Theseus. A writer with a penchant for metaphor and a character who thwarts her own best efforts. \u201cA Mexican American fascinator.\u201d<\/p>\n

At every step, Sotelo\u2019s poems seduce with history, folklore, and sensory detail\u2015grilled meat, golden haba\u00f1eros, and burnt sugar\u2015before delivering clear-eyed and eviscerating insights into power, deceit, relationships, and ourselves. Here is what it means to love someone without truly understanding them. Here is what it means to be cruel. And here is what it means to become an artist, of words and of the self.<\/p>\n

Blistering and gorgeous,\u00a0Virgin<\/i>\u00a0is an audacious act of imaginative self-mythology from one of our most promising young poets.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Selected by Ross Gay as winner of the inaugural Jake Adam York Prize, Analicia Sotelo\u2019s debut collection of poems is a vivid portrait of the artist as a young woman. In\u00a0Virgin, Sotelo walks the line between autobiography and mythmaking, offering up identities like dishes at a feast. These poems devour and complicate tropes of femininity\u2015of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":141347,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","category-poetry-collections"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Virgin-Poems.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-ALq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141324"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141396,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141324\/revisions\/141396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/141347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}