Tortillera: Poems (Signature Series Limited Edition)

by Caridad Moro-Gronlier

Book Overview

The TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Florida

The word tortillera means lesbian in Espa ol. The moniker is familiar to most Spanish speaking cultures, but especially particular to the Cuban experience. In most Cuban-American households to be called a tortillera (whether one is one or not) is the gravest of insults, the basest of adjectives, a cat call that whips through the air like a lash whose only intention is to wound, to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1680033425
• ISBN13: 9781680033427
• Release Date: February 2023
• Publisher: Texas Review Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"