California Book Award FinalistFeminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet.amp34Reyes writes with conviction about the various ways imperialism transforms women into capital collateral damaged soul. However the women that appear throughout the book are not merely victims in Reyess radical cosmology these womenthese daughtersamp8212are rebels saints revolutionaries and torchbearers sharptongued willful. This book is a call to arms against oppressive languages systems and traditions.amp34amp8212Publishers Weekly starred reviewamp34Infused with Spanish and Tagalog Reyess beautiful angry verse shines throughout. For a wide range of readers.amp34amp8212Library Journal starred reviewamp34I cannot shout brilliant loud enough. Start to this finish Invocation to Daughters is truth. I am not your ethnic spectacle. I am not your cultural poverty. You dont get to frame me. This is a book you read and teach and live.amp34amp8212Anthony Cody author ofamp160Borderland ApocryphaInvocation to Daughters is a book of prayers psalms and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish in meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality Barbara Jane Reyes unleashes the colonized tongue in a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity.Praise for Invocation to Daughtersamp34Against violence against women Barbara Jane Reyes rips and runs jumping off Audre Lordes the masters tools will never dismantle the masters house Invocation to Daughters recombines registersamp8212prayers pleas and elegyamp8212braiding a trilingual triplethreat a 3pronged poetics that enjambs and reconfigures the formal with the street utterance with erasure the prose sentence with the liminal. Invocation to Daughters reminds me of the 70s in the East B