A review by belladonnashrike
I Offer My Heart as a Target / Ofrezco mi corazón como una Diana by Lawrence Schimel, Johanny Vázquez Paz

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.5

I loved this collection of poetry, but I would’ve rated it higher if the poems that entailed the poet whining about being called gringa by her peers were excluded. it read very self-pitying in just the worst way 🙄

I did love how this was written in both spanish & english, it was really great practice for me to relearn the language.

favorite poems (no particular order)

- herencias / inheritance 
- voz interna / inner voice
- imborrable / uneraseable 

- ofrezco mi corazón como una diana / I offer my heart as a target
- onanismo literario / literary onanism

- díaspora de palabras / diaspora of words

“La laringe es un collar de cuentas perdidas donde mi voz no resuena fonemas heredados.”
“The larynx is a necklace of lost beads where my voice doesn’t echo inherited phonemes.”