The University of Arizona Press
When: Thursday, June 8, 2023, 6 p.m.
Where: LibroMobile, 1150 S. Bristol St. #A3, Santa Ana, California
Cynthia Guardado will speak with Ignacio Carvajal at “Poets in Conversation” in Santa Ana on June 8. Guardado will talk about Cenizas as well as her current work.
Cenizas offers an arresting portrait of a Salvadoran family whose lives have been shaped by the upheavals of global politics. The speaker of these poems—the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants—questions the meaning of homeland as she navigates life in the United States while remaining tethered to El Salvador by the long shadows cast by personal and public history. Cynthia Guardado’s poems give voice to the grief of family trauma, while capturing moments of beauty and tenderness. Maternal figures preside over the verses, guiding the speaker as she searches the ashes of history to tell her family’s story.
