I
Remember me in words
Count the syllables.
Recount them.
Can you see them
Kneeling before the universe?
I pray in verse
To these unruly Gods-
Of dishevelled grace.
II
Gather them all-
stray words
orphaned phrases
mundane pauses.
Hack them
until you bleed.
I
In Opposition of Poetic Tradition: A Poet’s Guide to Transcending Eurocentricity
Bianca Alyssa Pérez shows us in this essay how poets Laurie Ann Guerrero, Audre Lorde, and Gris Muñoz use free verse, personal experience, and linguistic subversion to challenge and transcend Eurocentric poetic traditions.
