Maps You Can't Make: Ebook

“Moving across voices and languages, Mariella Saavedra Carquin confronts trauma and still finds hope.” —Colorado Book Awards

“Saavedra Carquin’s voice is both bold and tender, lyrical and penetrating. Here is a poet who does not turn away from what needs to be seen and named in order to be transformed. These skilled and stunningly prescient poems accompany us on journeys to the uncharted and often marginalized parts of our world . . . The ending of her poem ‘We Carry It’ fittingly describes what this collection accomplishes: each poem bursts us open and empties its glitter over everything. Even without a map, we know a way forward.” —Julia Alvarez

“Poetry for me is all in the style and texture of the writing—Mariella Saavedra Carquin’s writing holds our hands & stares us in the soul & cries with us too. These are poems that make music of our grief and perseverance. Read along to sing along: Mariella Saavedra Carquin is making maps & language out of the unnameable truths of our lives.” —José Olivarez