Edgecliff - Book Launch, Reading & Signing

131 North Avenue 50,Los Angeles CA 90042

09 January, 2022

Description

Please join the Los Angeles community to celebrate the debut poetry book, Edgecliff, by Angelina Sáenz. Angelina Sáenz’s debut collection is a candid look at life for a middle-aged Chicana in the three years following a divorce from a 22-year marriage. These poems reflect on motherhood, rebound love, and pursuing an MFA as a first-generation college student while looking back on a childhood of love and community in the midst of crushing poverty and violence. In this poetic memoir, readers will find themselves both wincing at painful experiences of loss and assault, while applauding her indomitable spirit. In this work, the rays of resilience and celebration shine through in her poetry. Whether Sáenz is sharing about her sons asking if she is writing a poem or cooking them dinner, detailing the features of her lover’s body, talking to a family services social worker as a child or confronting professors’ micro-aggressions, Edgecliff gives us a rare narrative of an Angelino who commands her place in the city of Los Angeles.