Vandalisms
You belong to your husband, your master; not me;
I belong to nobody, or all…
You in yourself have no say; everyone governs you;
your husband, your parents, your family,
the…
At its most potent, the language in Xochiquetzal Candelaria’s Empire simultaneously welds comparisons and juxtapositions, interrogations and sometimes strange, often discomfiting, and always surprising imagery onto the psyche. Take the opening poem,…














