Abstract
Vanessa Ovalle is a Latina poet of Mexican descent. She grew up in Southern California speaking Spanglish, a combination of English and Spanish. This linguistic and cultural mixing would lead her to explore questions of language, translation and cultural authenticity in her poetry and academic study. As a senior at Cornell University Vanessa completed an undergraduate senior thesis entitled C- in Spanish for Bilinguals, which included both poetry composition and critical analysis. Currently she is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Highlights
Roommate room / mate two o’s / two m’s mirroring handclap Manhattan and Puerto Rico California and Mexico words writing us in corners palomas strung out on the tips of hallways, and what if you / your ideologue are / is a contrafactual? doubt it could fly if it wasn’t “real” if I was / if I were you: an idea
His etch-a-sketch retrato hangs lost, so admire the dolly shot of our sim world: the Applebees Fridays, Macaroni Grill with Maltese pooches in purses licking the soft-rot from sugar town brows beneath blondie bangs
It’s burning May; food scraps fluxing in radioactive decay are mixed in car-seats and cat sand
Summary
Roommate room / mate two o’s / two m’s mirroring handclap Manhattan and Puerto Rico California and Mexico words writing us in corners palomas strung out on the tips of hallways, and what if you / your ideologue are / is a contrafactual? doubt it could fly if it wasn’t “real” if I was / if I were you: an idea. Vanessa Ovalle, University of Southern California in Los Angeles She grew up in Southern California speaking Spanglish, a combination of English and Spanish.
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