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Each and Her

Each and Her is a book-length “collage poem” that addresses (among other things) the murders of more than four hundred and fifty women in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico since 1993. The poem also engages with works of contemporary Mexican poets, photographers, and painters, American feminists and theologians, Latin American and Chicano writers, the poet’s memories of traveling to Juarez as a young girl, the death of her sister, as well as facts about the maquiladora industry and the cultivation of roses. It is a wide-ranging poem which has, as its central impulse, a reckoning with femicide in its relation to memory, geography, economics, culture, literature, and religion. The book will be published by the University of Arizona Press in Fall 2010.