{"title":"India Lena González","description":"\u003cp\u003eIndia Lena González\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a poet, editor, and artist. She graduated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003emagna cum laude\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e from Columbia University (BA) and received her MFA from NYU’s Creative Writing program. While at NYU she served as a writing instructor for undergraduates and received a Writers in the Public Schools fellowship enabling her to teach literature to middle school students via Teachers \u0026amp; Writers Collaborative. Her work is published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eAmerican Chordata\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Brooklyn Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eLampblack, PANK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePigeon Pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e, among others. A three-time National Poetry Series finalist, India is also a professionally trained dancer, choreographer, and actor. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003efox woman get out!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is her debut poetry collection and was a finalist for Poetry Society of America’s 2024 Norma Farber First Book Award. She lives in Harlem. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"fox-woman-get-out","title":"fox woman get out!","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTake the body and split it wide open. Fill it with light. See the multiple interiors, the layered death, the familial mythology, the throb and splendor of being, the shedding of the body altogether: this is \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003efox woman get out!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eTraveling from the corporeal to the cosmic, from life to death and back again, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003efox woman get out!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is a full-throated performance of humanity in search of truth, ancestry, and artistic authenticity. Moving through themes of lineage, twinship, femininity and masculinity, reclamation of Indigeneity, dance, gender roles, and longing, González’s poems are a crescendo on the page.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePart ecstatic elegy, part spell, this is a betwixt poetics, a kaleidoscopic, disruptive, and meditative work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003efox woman get out!\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“India Lena González’s debut is made of exhilarating body language. Her serpentine stanzas, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eupper- and lowercase characters, and bold exclamations move like Bill T. Jones dancing to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eKeith Haring’s brushstrokes, like Alvin Ailey dancing to lines of June Jordan, like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Woman \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eWarrior\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e dancing with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eSister Outsider\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e. Joan Didion once said, ‘Style is character.’ González’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003evirtuosic style reveals not only depth of character, it reveals depth of spirit. Her poems are made \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eof capacious, irreducible energy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003efox woman get out!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e is unforgettable.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e—\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eTerrance Hayes, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e“What a sparkling debut! These exuberant lyrics ransack the seemingly fixed boundaries of racial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ehierarchies and labels, holding space for a transcendent, ever-singing, new voice. By turns playful, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eheartbroken, and searching, these poems abound with technical virtuosity, exulting in the mysteries \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eof heritage, home, and hope.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Kiki Petrosino, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhite Blood: A Lyric of Virginia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“González’s spectacular debut is a pageant of ancestral root-digging, ego-tripping, interspecies shape-shifting, straight talk, tall talk, talking with the dead, and talking back to ‘the gold-toothed hag that is america.’ She writes as a parda—one of ‘the mixed bloods whose ancestry could almost never be accurately described’ (or, as she later puts it, ‘the people-with-too-many-ancestors-inside-of-us’)—and also as a twin, challenging cultural assumptions about identity and individuality just by being who she is. While it would be wrong to suggest that \u003cspan\u003eGonzález\u003c\/span\u003e’s dynamic fusion and fission of personhood isn’t also marked with longing (‘i would like to know where to place myself’) and pain (‘will you please just skin me already \/ like one of them foxes’), what it manifests as is an extravaganza of poetic language, political critique, bursts of bardolatry and modern dance and speculative folklore, all presented in exquisite, mercurial hybrid forms. This is a work of great urgency, brilliance and valor, and it’s guaranteed to leave ‘the pink of your brain a throb.’” \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eTimothy Donnelly, author of \u003cem\u003eChariot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43986105008357,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/FoxWomanGetOut_CVR_LG.jpg?v=1679936691"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/India_Lena_Gonzalez_Photo_Credit_Lilly_Winter.jpg?v=1679936117","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/india-lena-gonzalez.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}