¿How Many Indians Can We Be? ¿Cuántos Indios Podemos Ser?
Posted: September 9, 2022
Friday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m.
Elliott Bay Book Company
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Dr. Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, professor of Modern Languages and Women Gender, and Sexuality Studies, reads from her newest book of poetry. She will be joined by SU poetry writing students Chloe Platt and Scooter Clair.
“East Indians, Mestizas, and Native peoples are the threads that weave Gutiérrez y Muhs’ lovely bilingual collection ¿How Many Indians Can we Be? What her poems seek to do is conjure the connections aligned with the suffering of the colonized familiar. By doing so Gutiérrez y Muhs develops other ways of seeing in which the connections prove resilient in the light of such violence. More so, Gutiérrez y Muhs’ hopefulness celebrates a woman’s capacity to create under such conditions. Xochiquetzal may have been the patron of weavers, but it is Gutiérrez y Muhs whose words weave cadences of bilingualism, colorful nuances of cultural exchanges in an unforgettable fabric of poetry.”
- Helena María Viramontes