Two Brown Dots

Danni Quintos is the winner of the 20th annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, which was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil. Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil will write the Foreword for the collection, and her name will appear on the cover. Strong regional appeal in Kentucky/Appalachia, the South, the Pacific Northwest, the West Coast, and cities with large multiethnic/Filipina/Filipinx communities.This title is part of BOA’s New Poets of America Series, which have seen strong sales in recent seasons by such authors as Chen Chen and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Previous Poulin winners in this series have seen outstanding attention from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Rumpus, Forward Reviews, etc.Danni Quintos tackles the hot-button topics of race, gender, immigration, and identity from a Filipina/x-American perspective. The poems in this collection explore what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky through the memories of girlhood, motherhood, family history, and Phillipine folklore. In the author’s words: “It is an antidote to the definition of ‘American’ as ‘white.’ It means to carve out a space and let readers know that we exist, we belong, we are from here and will continue to be.”Strong subject appeal for feminist studies, AAPI studies, multiethnic studies, and folklore studies, as well as courses on immigration, identity, race, gender, and intersectional identities.