Letters to a Young Brown Girl

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First printing: 2500 copies. Letters to a Young Brown Girl is Barbara Jane Reyess sixth full-length poetry collection. Her previous book, Invocation to Daughters, was published by City Lights Publishers in 2017 and received starred reviews in Library Journal and Publishers Weekly, among other reviews. Her previous BOA collection, DiwataThe collection was inspired by the letters Reyes has received from aspiring and emerging Filipina writers looking for advice, reassurance, and affirmation. Though the title alludes to Rilkes Letters to a Young PoetThe collection features several multilingual poems that incorporate English, Tagalong, and Spanish. Strong appeal for booksellers looking to highlight bilingual/multilingual books.

Author Bio

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 Franciscos Yuchengco Philippine Studies Program. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, CA.