Wholesale Desgraçada, by Marina Carreira

Poetry, chapbook, 36 pages, from Bottlecap Features. In an exploration of the fine line between creation and demise, Marina Carreira’s Desgraçada challenges what it means to be a product of both the fates and humans. In her second chapbook, Carreira bears witness to the complexities of being first-generation American via a crown of sonnets that detail their origin story. Nature and body collide in this collection as the poet navigates from one landscape to another with only the armor of their body, indistinctly tied to the lands that are her foremothers, children, and abuser. Desgraçada embraces the wretched and bitter nature of women born in two worlds, and the deaths and rebirths suffered as a result of immigration, motherhood, sexual assault, addiction, and queerness.