Description: "Unburying the Bones is a book of poetry that serves as an ode to those with grief lingering in their bodies, latent or bubbling-but always present-either in the firm of their ribcage or the soft of their thighs. The poems bring to the fore pain made corporeal, the roots of misogyny, femicide, and the depths of matrilineality. It is an exploration of intimacy while reflecting on the lengths society has gone to subdue women. The writer reclaims sex as pleasure, her body as home, and her fear into drive"--
Review Quotes: In her debut poetry collection, Unburying the Bones, Victoria Buitron dresses untamed desire with the body of a broken marriage, gives it hair, sex, and crowns it with childlessness, all this as a quiet, lyrical rage traces the history of the everyday violence bruising the lives of countless women. She asks: "How can I heal if my mother only taught me to reside in the place between praying and wishing?" And it is precisely this "place between praying and wishing" that Buitron sets on fire, this place of false security, false comfort, false patriarchal narrative. By the light of this fire, these poems call us to birth a "new skin" and to love ourselves again "when no one sees." Read these poems and bear witness to the courageous act of reclaiming one's life.
--Octavio Quintanilla, VersoFrontera Series Editor and author of The Book of Wounded Sparrows and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours--Octavio Quintanilla