The Matchstick Litanies

Blending poetic memoir and revelation, the matchstick litanies opens on family violence and women's work-both often silenced. These richly detailed poems, however, reclaim the voice of a speaker who excavates family stories woven with hard truths, spanning generations and who comes to see clearly their own "inheritance by what was visible: translucent scorpions braving the hot sidewalks, / winged ants following one another without end." jo reyes-boitel's poems are bold and brave; they refuse to look away from what is burning and show us that sometimes fire can create a path for self-fulfillment.

• | Author: Jo Reyes-Boitel
• | Publisher: Next Page Press
• | Publication Date: Nov 01, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 90 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1736672142
• | ISBN-13: 9781736672143