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Sueños: The Nighttime Mind from Maverick Duck Press

Marisa Silva-Dunbar’s newest chapbook Sueños: The Nighttime Mind welcomes the reader into the dreamy, “heroic journey” of fantastical realism in daily life. Tender yet fierce, sweet yet surreal, Sueños is a whispered hope for the future in gorgeous poetic imagery, inviting the reader to dream in tandem with Silva-Dunbar.

Sueños: The Nighttime Mind engages the fantasy of realism, spinning life into a dreamscape where Silva-Dunbar encourages the reader to embrace the process of divining truth and healing, welcoming all to the “Land of Enchantment” that awaits.

Rich with lush descriptions, Silva-Dunbar invokes the specter of the past to guide the reader to the hazy future, where reality and fantasy blend into the eternal hope of renewal and rebirth. In the world of Sueños: The Nighttime Mind, nostalgia is healing as Silva-Dunbar spins an effortless web of charm and escapism from waking life.

This soothing poetic journey through the clouds is punctuated by clever pop-culture references and searingly authentic memories, making Sueños: The Nighttime Mind as easily accessible as a beloved memory. The warmth of Silva-Dunbar’s speaker melds the eternal wisdom of ancient prophets with the limitless potential of the reclaimed self, creating a poetic collection that “rebuilds what is left of us” with sumptuous language and bubbling springs of hope.

Marisa Silva-Dunbar “takes our hand to watch the heavens melt” with the warmth and grace of celestial divinity, guiding the reader across the unknown cosmos. When we wake from our journey, Silva-Dunbar spins hope into reality and offers a loving embrace as we are returned to our own lives, empowered by the love, strength, and empathy we found along the way. A dreamy prayer for the future, Sueños: The Nighttime Mind is a beautiful collection that inspires the reader to
reach within for the tenderness necessary in the rebirth of self. – Sara Matson

Marisa Silva-Dunbar’s work is always a pleasure to read and her collection Sueños is no different. I think this collection may be my favorite. Dreams are powerful and I loved the connections to reality and the supernatural and how they wove themselves together in this manuscript. I especially related to her poems Mend, Shadow Figure, and Hymn for Rio and Rio Vidal. My favorite lines came from the poem the dream world: “I see a pulse of color/like a rainbow of embroidery thread”, and “If only river spirits were eternal”. These rich, powerful poems touch on reality and transport them into something more ethereal and sometimes while beautiful; they touch on the pain and darkness of the shadows reality has cast upon us.” – Linda M. Crate

Allison from Querencia Press

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“At times shattering, at other times hopeful and restorative, Silva-Dunbar’s Allison guides us through this terrifying house of mirrors–shows us the subtle horrors of manipulation, coercion, perfectionism–the grisly demons that can grow in the margins of our consciousness and take over our entire existence.”

–A.E. Copenhaver, author of My Days of Dark Green Euphoria, winner of the Siskiyou Prize for New Environmental Literature

When Goddesses Wake published by Maverick Duck Press

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