Letters to a Young Brown Girl

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SKU: 9781950774173
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By Barbara Jane Reyes

Series: American Poets Continuum Series

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Letters to a Young Brown Girl by Barbara Jane Reyes is a bold and fiercely intelligent poetry collection that addresses the experiences of Filipino American girls and young women of colour. The titular Brown Girl fiercely challenges the silencing and marginalisation she faces, confronting daily violences with raw honesty, rage, and a quest for beauty and grace. Through evocative poems, Reyes explores identity and resilience from the perspective of a visible immigrant woman of colour living under patriarchy.
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This collection is essential for readers interested in contemporary poetry, social justice, and the experiences of women of colour. It will particularly resonate with Filipino American communities and those seeking a fierce, empathetic exploration of identity, feminism, and resistance.

Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.

Galley mailing to key reviewers and media outlets 4-5 months prior to publication.

Advanced review copies and press materials sent to targeted list of 150-200 reviewers. Additional review copies available by request: contact@boaeditions.org.

National advertising: Poets & Writers, American Poets, and the Academy of American Poets newsletter.

Outreach to online media and bloggers including BuzzFeed, Bustle, Book Riot, Literary Hub, etc. for features on Filipino American poetry, writing advice (#OwnVoices, #WeNeedDiverseBooks), racism, immigration, gender inequality, etc.

Buy-ins to relevant academic conferences, trade shows, and publications: American Library Association Annual Meeting, Association for Asian American Studies conference, CBSD Sales catalog, Ingram Academic catalog, etc.

Spring book announcements submitted to Publishers Weekly.

Online/social media campaign: Extensive promotion through BOA’s website, blog, e-newsletter (7,400+ subscribers), Facebook (7,000+ followers), Twitter (9,000 followers), Instagram (2,500+ followers), and Pinterest (840+ followers) accounts.

Full-page feature in publisher’s in-house catalog.

E-postcards will be sent to the author’s professional contacts as well as BOA’s academic contacts, reviewer contacts, bookstore contacts, and literary bloggers.

Simultaneous ebook and print publication. Ebook ISBN will be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed.

Book launch and readings planned for San Francisco Bay Area in conjunction with Filipino American History Month.

Author has ties at several museums that focus on works by Asian American/Asian Pacific American artists and is planning to pitch events for fall 2020.

Possible joint events with Jan-Henry Gray (BOA), Jason Bayani (Omnidawn), Marianne Chan (Sarabande), Rick Barot (Milkweed/Sarabande), Kenji Liu (Alice James), Monica Sok (Copper Canyon), Mark Nowak (Coffee House), Arlene Biala (Word Tech), Michelle Peñaloza (Inlandia Institute), EJR David (SUNY Press), and Grace Talusan.

Limited co-ops available.

Promotion through the author’s website (www.barbarajanereyes.com) and social media feeds.

Description

Barbara Jane Reyes answers the questions of Filipino American girls and young women of colour with bold affirmations of hard-won empathy, fierce intelligence, and a fine-tuned B.S. detector.

The Brown Girl of these poems is fed up with being shushed, with being constantly told how foreign, unattractive, and unwanted she is. She's flipping tables and throwing chairs. She's raising her voice. She's keeping a sharp focus on the violences committed against her every day, and she's writing through the depths of her "otherness" to find beauty and even grace amidst her rage.

Simultaneously looking into the mirror and out into the world, Reyes exposes the sensitive nerve-endings of life under patriarchy as a visible immigrant woman of colour as she reaches towards her unflinching centre.

Series: American Poets Continuum Series

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Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

Critics praise Letters to a Young Brown Girl as a powerful and urgent voice against imperialism and commoditisation. Willie Perdomo lauds the book as Reyes's most potent work, describing it as a "duende"—a deeply soulful force—as the poems offer life-saving questions and transformative insights. The collection is recognised as a vital gathering place and site of survival for young brown girls, blending interrogation and empowerment in intensely moving verse.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950774173

Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 November 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: BOA Editions, Limited

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 177.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 72

Collections

Arts & Culture Barbara Jane Reyes Non-Fiction Poetry Series: American Poets Continuum Series

About the Author

Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of five previous collections of poetry: Gravities of Center (Arkipelago Books, 2003), Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2006), which received the James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, Diwata (BOA, 2010), which received the Global Filipino Literary Award for Poetry, To Love as Aswang (PAWA, Inc. Publications, 2015), Invocation to Daughters (City Lights, 2017), and Letters to a Young Brown Girl (BOA, 2020). She is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco's Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, CA.

Letters to a Young Brown Girl