6/24/2023 0 Comments Mean myriam gurba![]() ![]() You get the feeling Gurba would be a good stand-up poet: “I looked down at her Brussels sprouts. She combines different registers and rhythms, and weaves together threads of different kinds of privilege, whiteness, sexual assault, and trauma. Gurba’s prose is dark and sparse, potent yet playful. “It’s okay for ghosts to exist through me,” she writes. Years later, Torres’s ghostly presence continues to make itself known, and Gurba has made her peace with this. The story begins with the rape and murder of Sophia Castro Torres. Gurba had a Mexican feminist mother and a half-Polish father, and a mother tongue of English, Spanish, and some Nahuatl. ![]() MEAN, a series of vignettes released by Coffee House Press in November 2017, is a memoir in which Myriam Gurba explores how it felt to grow up as a queer Chicana in Southern California. ![]()
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