What Remains

By Claudia Delfina Cardona

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the Fall 2020 Host Publication Chap Book Prize. WHAT REMAINS is a collection of poems propelled by impulse, desire and an ancestral sense of longing. These poems are experiential; they exist within the dark and splendid catacombs of the body, in dusty moonlit Texas nights, and invite us into their own glittery mythos of what it means to be a young woman falling in and out of love in San Antonio.

WHAT REMAINS begins with a portrait of a Brown girl growing up in San Antonio: a girl whose tongue is] burnt from gas station coffee, and who wears a name dipped in gold. She invites us to lay our] head / on her] chest and listen, to stir your margarita / with a chamoy-coated straw, and to play a guessing game of gunshot / or firework. We settle into the rich and storied landscape of San Antonio just in time to be lunged into a dimension of lust, loving, and longing, toward someplace too dark for us to see--, only to return to what remains.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0924047925
• ISBN13: 9780924047923
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Host Publications
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.