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The Firetalker's Daughter
The Firetalker's Daughter honors the power of mother's love and tender teaching, the value of ancestral gifting and wisdom, the necessity of mourning for movement, and the audacity to hope and act for a more just future. Spun along a motif of fire, these poems carry searing incantations that evoke an awareness of the relevance of the literal, figurative, and spiritual fires that breathe down lines and throughout time.
Book Details
- Publisher: Finishing Line Press
- Publish Date: Mar 31st, 2023
- Pages: 44
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.11in - 0.15lb
- EAN: 9798888381885
- Categories: • General
About the Author
Garcia, Regina Yc: - Regina YC Garcia is a Poet, Language Artist, and English Professor from Greenville, NC. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill (BA) and East Carolina University (MAEd) with a Graduate Certificate in Multicultural and Transnational Literature, her work has appeared in a variety of journals, reviews, and anthologies to include The AutoEthnographer, South Florida Poetry Journal, Up the Staircase Quarterly, New Note Poetry, Amistad, Main Street Rag, The Book of Black, Black and..., and numerous others. Her work has also been featured in a Mid-South Emmy Award winning episode of PBS' Muse featuring "The Black Light Project" (UNC TV), as well as the Sacred Nine Project of Tulane University. The Firetalker's Daughter, published by Finishing Line Press, is her debut collection.
Praise for this book
Spiritual incantation and unspoken ancestral magic singed and sparked my heart, as I moved through the language and gospel of Regina YC Garcia's debut collection The Firetalker's Daughter. Charting a path through her lineage of healers and those who could "talk the fire" out of burns and wounds, the gift passed over her, she burns her own powerful impressions of Black Light onto the breaking world, like an ancestor alive and witnessing. "I cannot talk the fire / Yet, I am Fire... Truth / My ancient magic renders demons cold." Garcia takes the reader into the depths of self, motherhood, social justice cries, the erasure of Black history by the fires of an all-consuming whiteness, mourning a lost daughter in Breonna Taylor, and yet, carrying an unwavering hope in "the rise of indomitable spirits from the embers." The seeds of generations are scattered in these blazing words, torched open. These poems- a phoenix rising from, all around us, a world of ash.-Kai Coggin, author of Mining for Stardust, Incandescent, and Wingspan
The Firetalker's Daughter is an offering, incantation, and invocation that taps into the power physically or metaphorically of fire. Through expressions of the inner self, Regina YC Garcia's poems tap into the questions of reconciling fearsome nature with goodness and peacefulness as seen through this divine elemental creation. Scorching imagery and passion create wisps of smoke. Smoldering narratives become lightning bolts and poetic kindling igniting substantive undergrowth for a brighter day. The Firetalker's Daughter invites the blaze that always illuminates the before time of far tomorrows.-Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate
The Firetalker's Daughter is an offering, incantation, and invocation that taps into the power physically or metaphorically of fire. Through expressions of the inner self, Regina YC Garcia's poems tap into the questions of reconciling fearsome nature with goodness and peacefulness as seen through this divine elemental creation. Scorching imagery and passion create wisps of smoke. Smoldering narratives become lightning bolts and poetic kindling igniting substantive undergrowth for a brighter day. The Firetalker's Daughter invites the blaze that always illuminates the before time of far tomorrows.-Jaki Shelton Green, North Carolina Poet Laureate