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From the author of MyOTHER TONGUE comes a new collection of prose poetry exploring the intergenerational inheritance of gendered violence.

Rosa Alcalá choreographs language to understand the body as it ＂gathers itself over time to become whole,＂ recovering the speaker’s intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches, anxieties, and lessons of a woman’s survival. Ruminating on daughterhood, mothering, and the body’s cumulative wisdom, YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present.

Rosa Alcalá is a poet and translator originally from Paterson, NJ, who has published four books of poetry, including YOU. She is the recipient of a 2023 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists, a 2023-2024 Woodberry Poetry Room Creative Fellowship at Harvard University, and a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. Her poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Harper’s, The Nation, and Best American Poetry. She currently lives and teaches in El Paso, Texas.