Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either || Book of Poems || Poetry Books Set

Selena Didn't Know Spanish Either by Marisa Tirado is a debut poetry collection which seeks Legendary Tejano Pop-Star Selena Quintanilla as a means of reconnecting to the speaker's cultural identity. As Spanish language and culture becomes more accessible to non-Latinx populations, the speaker grapples with her own complex story of assimilation.
Modern marginalization, appropriation, tokenizing, and fetishizing are examined in this multi-generational memoir tracking a Latinx family's journey to assimilation.

This dynamic collection is far-reaching, exploring BIPOC experiences in predominantly white cultures.

Excerpt From "Young Memoir"

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is silent. is spiritual. It is being robbed of memoir while you sleep in a suburb. it is nonconsensually sensual--it is a question. when it comes for you, what will you recover? what will you do to reclaim all that was forced lost?