The University of Arizona Press
Date: Sunday, September 29, 2024
Time: 3 p.m., EDT
Where: North Stage, Korean War Veterans Park, 277 Cadman Plaza, Brooklyn NY
Poet Diego Báez , author of Yaguareté White will read with Hala Alyan (The Moon That Turns You Back), Armen Davoudian (The Palace of Forty Pillars), and Jive Poetic (Skip Tracer) and discuss how the poem can investigate family, place, memory, and archives. The Brooklyn Book Festival panel will be moderated by Sarah Aziza. The Brooklyn Book Festival is New York City’s largest free literary festival and connects readers with local, national and international authors and publishers during the course of a celebratory literary week. The mission of the Brooklyn Book Festival is to celebrate published literature and nurture a literary cultural community through programming that cultivates and connects readers of diverse ages and backgrounds with local, national and international authors, publishers and booksellers.
About the book:
In Diego Báez’s debut collection, Yaguareté White, English, Spanish, and Guaraní encounter each other through the elusive yet potent figure of the jaguar. The son of a Paraguayan father and a mother from Pennsylvania, Báez grew up in central Illinois as one of the only brown kids on the block—but that didn’t keep him from feeling like a gringo on family visits to Paraguay. Exploring this contradiction as it weaves through experiences of language, self, and place, Báez revels in showing up the absurdities of empire and chafes at the limits of patrimony, but he always reserves his most trenchant irony for the gaze he turns on himself.
