The University of Arizona Press
Date: Saturday, September 14, 2024
Time: 5 p.m., CDT
Where: Metropolis Cafe, 1039 W. Granville Ave., Chicago
Poet Diego Báez, author of Yaguareté White, will read for “An Inconvenient Hour: Prose, Poetry, & Coffee” event at Metropolis Cafe in Chicago, Illinois. He will be joining poets Meghan Lamb and Victoria C. Flanagan in sharing their works for this Edgewater Institution hosted series.
About the book:
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.
Yaguareté White is a lyrical exploration of Paraguayan American identity and what it means to see through a colored whiteness in all of its tangled contradictions.
