Querida: Poems by Nathan Xavier Osorio

Querida: Poems

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Querida: Poems

University of Pittsburgh Press

Querida: Poems

by Nathan Xavier Osorio

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Winner, 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize Finalist, 2025 California Book Awards Finalist, 2025 Norma Faber First Book Award

Querida offers a place-based lyrical meditation on the poet's immigrant parents, collective memory, language, and family in the San Fernando region of Los Angeles, California. Through a constellation of interweaving persona poems, confessional reflections, imagistic portraits of people and places, and decolonial poetic rituals--braided with a crown of sonnets--a choir of speakers navigate the fraught inheritance of memory frayed by the generational trauma of migration, coloniality, and the exploitative labor of late-stage capitalism. Swaying between maximalist and carnivalesque textual decadence and sparse, brutalist, bilingual inquiries into language as yet another exploitative and extractive tool for control, these poems honor familial and community wisdom as the only way to survive the steadily destabilizing Capitalocene.
Book Details
Publisher:
University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:
9780822948377
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
112
Authors:
Nathan Xavier Osorio
Published Date:
2024-09-10
Language:
English
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About Nathan Xavier Osorio

Querida (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2024), Nathan Xavier Osorio's debut collection, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award in Poetry. Originally from Sylmar, California, the son of a Mexican grocer and a Nicaraguan nurse, he holds a PhD in literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA in poetry and translation from Columbia University. Osorio is also the author of The Last Town Before the Mojave, chosen for the Poetry Society of America's 2021 Chapbook Fellowship. Now an assistant professor at Texas Tech University, he served as the 2025 Dartmouth Poet-in-Residence at The Frost Place. His writing has appeared in BOMB, Boston Review, and Public Books.

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