Gloria M. Muñoz
Gloria Muñoz is a Colombian American writer and translator. She is the author of "Danzirly," winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Ambroggio Prize, and the chapbook "Your Biome Has Found You." Her work has won a Lumina multilingual award, a New York Summer Writers Fellowship, a Creative Pinellas Grant and a USF Humanities Poetry Prize. She holds degrees from Sarah Lawrence College and the University of South Florida, and she teaches at Eckerd College.
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Danzirly
Poetry
University of Arizona Press
April 2021
ISBN 9780816542338
PB, 160 pages
$16.95, NYP
Buy nowDanzirly is a striking bilingual poetry collection that fiercely examines the nuances of the American Dream for Latinx people in the United States.
With a backdrop of stringent immigration policies, the #MeToo movement, and the increasingly tangible threat of climate change, this collection considers multigenerational Latinx identities in a rapidly changing country and world. Through the author’s Colombian American lens, the poems explore the intersections of culture, gender, history, and intergenerational grief.
Danzirly does not shy away from confronting traditional gender roles, religion, and anxieties surrounding climate change and the digital age. Gloria Muñoz addresses Latinx stereotypes and powerfully dismantles them in poetic form, juxtaposing the promised wonders of a life in America with the harsh realities that immigrants face as they build their lives and raise their families here. Winner of the Academy of American Poets’ Ambroggio Prize, this collection of poems is an unforgettable reckoning of the grief and beauty that pulses through twenty-first-century America. More/less
