{"id":5869,"date":"2025-02-02T19:32:20","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T01:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/?p=5869"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:19:49","slug":"book-review-querida-by-nathan-xavier-osorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/book-review-querida-by-nathan-xavier-osorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Querida by Nathan Xavier Osorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>by LG Sebayan<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|32.1719px|0px|false|false&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;15px|0px|16.0859px|0px|false|false&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221;]<div id=\"attachment_5870\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5870\" class=\"wp-image-5870 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/OsorioNathan-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/OsorioNathan-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/OsorioNathan-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/OsorioNathan-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/OsorioNathan-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/OsorioNathan-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/OsorioNathan-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/OsorioNathan-1080x810.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of University of Pittsburgh Press<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Xavier Osorio\u2019s award-winning debut poetry collection, <em>Querida<\/em>, looks at the lives of a family of immigrant origin in the San Fernando area of Los Angeles. Chosen by Shara McCallum as the winner of the 2024 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, this collection published in September by University of Pittsburgh Press as part of the Pitt Poetry Series explores the family\u2019s place in the American landscape. Osorio shows how family, inheritance, memory, and transnational culture fill in spaces left by cracks in the terrain.<\/p>\n<p>The forty-three poems of this rich, perceptive collection are divided into three sections and include a one-sentence first poem, \u201cEnglish as a Second Language,\u201d poems that are sequences of sonnets titled \u201cThe Last Town Before the Mojave,\u201d poems in the form of cantos, and persona poems. Except for its beginning poem, \u201cAbandonarium,\u201d the third section comprises poems with titles that start with the word \u201cRitual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Osorio examines themes of ancestry, the past, Americana, such as the game of baseball, and the American lives of immigrant parents and their children. \u201cQuerida\u201d \u2014 the Spanish feminine word for \u201cdear\u201d and a term of endearment \u2014 not only serves as the title of the collection, but also appears in epigraphs of the book\u2019s second section, and in \u201cQuerida Am\u00e9rica,\u201d a poem in the second section made up of seven quatrains and one final stanza of five lines, which addresses America directly and delves into the speaker\u2019s and speaker\u2019s mother\u2019s attitudes toward the United States. \u201cQuerida Am\u00e9rica, I remember your promise \/ and put my lips to the gas tank &#8230; Querida Am\u00e9rica, \/ the last train home has left\u201d (61). The poem alludes to loneliness and unfulfilled dreams in a violent, capitalist, and an exploitative America.<\/p>\n<p>A variety of divisions in America\u2019s landscape can be found throughout the collection. For example, in the powerful opening poem, \u201cEnglish as a Second Language,\u201d the speaker is separated linguistically from others in an educational institution: \u201cin my collegiate days when I nodded submissively to a professor \/ who assured me my failure was because English was my second language\u201d (5). Additionally, this poem and others feature the San Gabriel Mountains as a border and separation, while other poems refer to valleys, rivers, or earthquakes. More splits feature in the poem, \u201c13 More American Landscapes, \/ a View-Master Reel,\u201d which is made up of thirteen short-lined lyrical vignettes separated by one hyphen, including \u201cThe Liberty Bell\u2019s fissure\u201d; divorced, multicultural famous couple whose names are even separated in the poem\u2019s lineation, \u201cLucille Ball and the Latin Lover, \/ Desi Arnaz\u201d; and \u201cThe U.S.-Mexican border wall \/ puncturing the Pacific\u201d (58). The breaks and barriers represent unrealized American ideals.<\/p>\n<p>The collection\u2019s final Section III, which consists of the \u201cAbandonarium\u201d and \u201cRitual\u201d poems, plays with the multiple meanings of the word \u201cextraction\u201d \u2014 the extracting process, a thing extracted, and ancestry. Some \u201cRitual\u201d poems seamlessly traverse languages from English to Spanish. The poem, \u201cRitual for Erasure,\u201d repeats \u201cThis extraction site is an omission,\u201d which calls attention to what is extracted, missing, and why; one response is: \u201cThis extraction site is an omission of that which could, yet still cannot: \/ the bruised phantom limbs and the prayer passed from mother to \/ son\u201d (83). The extractions, such as the \u201cphantom limbs\u201d and mother\u2019s prayer, suggest spirituals that have not yet manifested and absences stemming from lineage.<\/p>\n<p><em>Querida<\/em>\u2019s American landscape is one of contrasts: \u201cHot Cheeto bags\u201d juxtapose with \u201chand-stitched servilletas\u201d (13), there are \u201cpigeons \/ or palomas\u201d (39), and \u201cthe barrio\u2019s first and last organic grocery store\u201d (87). Osorio mends gaps from disconnectedness with family relations, transnational markers, heritage, memories, and faith.<\/p>\n<p>Osorio\u2019s <em>Querida <\/em>is published by <a href=\"https:\/\/upittpress.org\/books\/9780822948377\/\">University of Pittsburgh Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5871 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/Osorio-cover-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/Osorio-cover-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/Osorio-cover-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/Osorio-cover-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/Osorio-cover-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/Osorio-cover-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/Osorio-cover-1080x1440.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/uwm.edu\/creamcityreview\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/421\/2025\/01\/Osorio-cover.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bios:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nathan Xavier Osorio\u00a0<\/strong>is the author of\u00a0<em>The Last Town Before the Mojave<\/em>, selected by Oliver de la Paz for the Poetry Society of America\u2019s 2020 Chapbook Fellowship. His poetry, translations, and essays have been featured or are forthcoming in\u00a0<em>BOMB<\/em>, the\u00a0<em>Offing<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Boston Review<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Public Books<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Notre Dame Review<\/em>, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, and elsewhere. His writing and teaching have been supported by fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center, the\u00a0<em>Kenyon Review<\/em>, and\u00a0the\u00a0Poetry Foundation. He was born and raised in Los Angeles, California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LG Sebayan<\/strong> is a PhD English and Creative Writing student at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where her work was selected by Nicky Beer for the Creative Writing Faculty Legacy Award for Poetry. Her poems are published or forthcoming in <em>CALYX Journal<\/em>, <em>Midwest Review<\/em>, <em>Pleiades<\/em>, and elsewhere. She is an Assistant Editor at <em>Cream City Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243;] by LG Sebayan [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0|0px|32.1719px|0px|false|false&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.48&#8243; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;15px|0px|16.0859px|0px|false|false&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.47&#8243; parallax=&#8221;off&#8221; parallax_method=&#8221;on&#8221;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.17.2&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221; custom_margin=&#8221;0px|0px|0px|0px&#8221;] &nbsp; Nathan Xavier Osorio\u2019s award-winning debut poetry collection, Querida, looks at the lives of a family of immigrant origin in the San Fernando area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","uwm_wg_additional_authors":[]},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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