Monday, May 9, 2011

[Red Missed Aches] by Jennifer Tamayo, now available for pre-order!


Jennifer Tamayo's Red Missed Aches Read Missed Aches Red Mistakes Read Mistakes is now available for preorder on the Switchback website and on Amazon!

[Red Missed Aches] is a perfect-bound 8.5" x 8.5" book of text and images, winner of the Switchback Books 2010 Gatewood Prize, selected by Cathy Park Hong.

From Cathy Park Hong's introduction:

Jennifer Tamayo's writing is cacophonous, rude, and stripped. She uses equal measures of English, Spanish, and Spanglish; she landmines her poetry with malapropisms so the music is startling and pleasingly discordant.

[Red Missed Aches] feels defiantly unfinished, adhering to a DIY feminist punk aesthetic so that it is more rough assemblage than bound book, a palimpsest that provocatively revises female sexuality and citizenship. Tamayo's debut collection is a daring and astonishing work that refuses borders.

Switchback Books
May 15, 2011
ISBN-10: 0978617266
ISBN-13: 978-0978617264
$18.00


Visit the Switchback site to purchase the book via Paypal!!


(And while you're at it, be sure to enter the 2011 Gatewood contest, open for submissions right now!)