{"product_id":"killing-marias","title":"Killing Maria's: A Poem for Multiple Voices","description":"\u003cp\u003eby Claudia Castro Luna\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePraise for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKilling Marias: A Poem for Multiple Voices\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEach poem in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKilling Marias\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is addressed to someone named Maria who has been killed in Juarez. Lyric in tradition, they are more love poems than elegies. The poems are full of love, of care, of transnational empathy. This is a book that is unusually moving and beautifully written. -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJuliana Sphar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this epic poetry collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKilling Marias\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Claudia Castro Luna, both poetically and physically, settles spaces that were unclaimed by Latinas. Her inscription of the disappeared women of Juarez is a live cartographic image of struggle and spiritual survival. Castro Luna does not allow for these dead women to lack agency; they nourish us and the earth, and they speak with their bodies, literally, positioning themselves as recovered entities with agency, in the poet’s skilled narrativizing hands. -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGabriella Gutierrez y Muhs\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eKilling Marias\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, each poem is a rosary bead named after a woman’s life in Ciudad Juarez. Each bead reveals a crack of light through which we can peak into the hurt so many women experience from birth to death. Castro Luna’s piercing voice states “exploitation has no limits,” and that “man’s hypocrisy even less.” She dares us to stop being mediocre humans, especially men, and let the “feminine thrive.” -- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJavier Zamora\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural \u0026 Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43409097097277,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2220\/7891\/files\/71n-BrzyakL._SL1360.jpg?v=1785356615","url":"https:\/\/tia-chuchas.myshopify.com\/products\/killing-marias","provider":"Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural \u0026 Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}