{"product_id":"reverse-requiem-9781949944778","title":"Reverse Requiem","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhiting Award-winning poet Ina Cariño's sophomore collection, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eReverse Requiem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e, explores mental health and wellness, ancestry and lineage, and the enduring complexities of human connection. In a world marked by the failures of capitalism, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eReverse Requiem\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e speaks to the lonely parts within all of us--and to the love that persists within community and ourselves, despite everything.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese soulful and elegiac poems, written in Cariño's signature saturated lines, follow a speaker shaped by both subtle and profound personal tragedies. The collection's emotional resonance is deepened by its formal inventiveness: poems shift in length, tone, and use of white space, mirroring the fractured, nonlinear journey at the book's heart. The title, \u003cem\u003eReverse Requiem\u003c\/em\u003e, suggests a retracing of a life: rather than unfolding chronologically, the poems are guided by the speaker's shifting mental and emotional states. Early pieces carry a stark, dirge-like weight that gradually gives way to glimmers of hope--proposing that healing, though never linear, remains within reach. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCariño wrote \u003cem\u003eReverse Requiem\u003c\/em\u003e gradually, over the course of a year spent immersed in other creative disciplines, including music and visual art. A mentor once told them, \"Even if you stop writing, you're never truly leaving it behind--you're always a writer if you stay open to the world.\" That openness permeates this collection. Where \u003cem\u003eFeast\u003c\/em\u003e, Cariño's debut, turned inward, \u003cem\u003eReverse Requiem\u003c\/em\u003e reaches outward. While it remains grounded in introspection, this second book reflects a year of emotional risk and connection--extending itself toward the world and those who inhabit it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginally from Baguio City in the Philippines, \u003cstrong\u003eIna Cariño\u003c\/strong\u003e is a 2022 Whiting Award winner for poetry. Their work appears in the\u003cem\u003e American Poetry Review, the Margins, Guernica, Poetry Northwest, Poetry Magazine, the Paris Review Daily, Waxwing, New England Review, \u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere. She is a Kundiman fellow and is the winner of the 2021 Alice James Award for \u003cem\u003eFeast\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Alice James Books in March 2023. In 2019, Ina founded a poetry reading series called Indigena Collective, a platform that aims to center marginalized creatives in the NC community and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alice James Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52176261021970,"sku":"9781949944778","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c2f9dc9b-1bb0-4e18-bc7a-e75cdac4b864.jpg?v=1775560435","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/reverse-requiem-9781949944778","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}