Turn Around BRXGHT XYXS

By Rosebud Ben-Oni

Subjects: LGBTQ poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)

Description: Poetry. Latinx Studies. Jewish Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. Winner of the 2019 Bisexual Book Award for Poetry. Rosebud Ben-Oni is an incomparable poet with a voice like no one else. Her poetic work hails from the crossroads of countries and culture, tongues and taboo. Ben-Oni's poetic work hails. At play is a potent poetics of vortices of word and act, love y Justicia. She speaks to Latinidad in 'having hope / in our pop-up whit of the world.... / to never having really left Jerusalem.... / To the hours we (make) horses between nightfall / and war...' TURN AROUND BRXGHT XYXS in the house! – Lorna Dee Cervantes