Esperanza Hope Snyder

While I was giving birth to Lucy, my husband, Alessandro, was lying in bed with my sister Isabel. And thus, Ines Camargo, the youngest daughter of an Italian nobleman and a Colombian poet, begins to speak in a bitter, sweet voice. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century Colombia, where the Catholic Church exercises total control over women, Orange Wine weaves...

Poems from a critically acclaimed Cuban writer available in English for the first time. Imbued with a sensuality reminiscent of the work of Anaïs Nin, Wendy Guerra’s Delicates takes readers on an exhilarating journey through the cities of love, where women leave their bodies “in the showers of men,” marking their territory “like animals in heat,” their panties “saturated with...