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Craig Santos Perez
-author of Navigating CHamoru Poetry
"This collection is a profound and melodic song that explores the complexities of being a queer, diasporic Black Pacific Islander woman. Throughout, Williams composes formally innovative poems that praise her multiple languages, lineages, and belongings.”
Matt Sutherland
-Foreword Reviews
"The Mariana Islands claim a long line of Chamorro versemakers and storytellers. To this tradition, Danielle P. Williams adds a measure of Black gospel to create this wholly original debut collection. An essayist and spoken-word artist from Columbia, South Carolina, she earned an MFA in poetry from George Mason University. Now living in Southern California, her Who All Gon’ Be There? was a finalist in the Button Poetry Chapbook Contest."
Alan Pelaez Lopez
-editor of When Language Broke Open: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Black Writers of Latin American Descent
"Danielle P. Williams confesses that she wants to be ‘in two languages / at once,’ and she excellently does this while also creating a third language: one of Black Indigenous intimacy that asks other Black Indigenous kin to ‘tell the world about yourself.’ By merging spoken word with formalist traditions and Black gospel with Chamorro stories, Williams teaches us to make song and politics out of fury, experience, and ancestral dreams. Chamorrita Song is a debut in avant-garde and spoken poetics"
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