The Moe Green Poetry Poetry Discussion hosted Rafael F J Alvarado & Brett-Candace

Join Rafael & Brett-Candace as they talk to Cassandra Loves new book Swagger Is A Woman Cassandra Love’s first poetry collection, Swagger is a Woman, presents intimate, in-depth, and critical reflections of race/ethnicity and gender at the turn of the millennium. She boldly confronts the subjects of love, family, loss, and violence. Love's poems remind audiences that there are many connections between the self and the world—connections that are both poetic and political in nature. Swagger is a Woman is a testament that language has the power to imprint our minds with human experience. "These poems hold up mirrors—or, shards reflecting in moonlight, on asphalt, and in razors upon the skin—in order to produce and reproduce a self which is “alone. exploring her curves,” which wants to mend what is broken, to find the daughter left by the Filipina mother tearing down walls, and, ultimately, to find a home through memory. " -Sasha Pimentel Chacón, author of Insides She Swallowed "Don’t be surprised to find cocooned in these pages of poetry – tender and sassy by turns – the purest manner of memoir. Cassandra Love’s first book is jam-packed with genuine honesty, anger, passion, and contemplation on growing up mixed-blood and wild at the close of one century, and surviving to face a cruel new century’s challenge." -Al Young, California Poet Laureate Emeritus