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    Tracing the Horse
    Tracing the Horse
    Tracing the Horse
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    Tracing the Horse

    By Diana Marie Delgado and Luis Javier Rodriguez

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  • First printing: 2000 copies (trade paper).

  • Tracing the Horse is Diana Marie Delgado’s debut full-length collection of poetry. Her chapbook, Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust (Center for Book Arts, 2015), won the 2015 Poetry Chapbook Competition of The Center for Book Arts, judged by Sharon Dolin and Cornelius Eady.

  • Tracing the Horse is an intersectional feminist text that reflects the experiences of many first-generation Mexican American women. The poems incorporate resilience, agency, and the power of healing through open reflections on trauma and a gradual acceptance of its role in shaping the author’s identity.

  • Diana Delgado is well connected in the literary community. She is a member of CantoMundo and the Macondo Writers Workshops community andhas received fellowships and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, and Letras Latinas. She now serves as the literary director of the University of Arizona Poetry Center.

  • This title is part of BOA’s New Poets of America Series, which have seen strong sales in recent seasons. Previous titles in this series have seen outstanding attention from The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, The Rumpus, Forward Reviews, etc.


  • As part of the New Poets of America Series, the collection will have a Foreword by Luis J. Rodriguez. Rodriguez served as the Poet Laureate of Los Angeles from 2014–2016.

  • Strong regional appeal in the American southwest and other communities with vibrant Mexican-American communities.
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBOA Editions Ltd.
    Release dateSep 10, 2019
    ISBN9781942683889
    Tracing the Horse
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    Diana Marie Delgado

    Diana Marie Delgado’s debut poetry collection, Tracing the Horse, will be published by BOA Editions in the Fall of 2019. She is also the author of Late Night Talks with Men I Think I Trust (Center for Book Arts, 2015). She is a recipient of a 2017 NEA Fellowship in Poetry and has received grants and scholarships from Hedgebrook, Bread Loaf, Letras Latinas, and Jack Jones Literary Retreat. Delgado holds a BA in Poetry from UC Riverside and an MFA in Poetry from Columbia University. Her poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Tin House, Ninth Letter, The North American Review, Prairie Schooner, TriQuarterly, and Fourteen Hills. Her work is rooted in her experiences growing up in the Mexican-American community, and she is a member of the CantoMundo and Macondo writing communities. She is the Literary Director of the Poetry Center at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

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      Tracing the Horse - Diana Marie Delgado

      Tracing the Horse

      Tracing the Horse

      poems by

      Diana Marie Delgado

      A. Poulin, Jr. New Poets of America Series, No. 43

      BOA Editions, Ltd. Rochester, NY 2019

      Copyright © 2019 by Diana Marie Delgado

      Foreword copyright © 2019 by Luis J. Rodriguez

      All rights reserved

      Manufactured in the United States of America

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      For information about permission to reuse any material from this book, please contact The Permissions Company at www.permissionscompany.com or e-mail permdude@gmail.com.

      Publications by BOA Editions, Ltd.—a not-for-profit corporation under section 501 (c) (3) of the United States Internal Revenue Code—are made possible with funds from a variety of sources, including public funds from the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency; and the County of Monroe, NY. Private funding sources include the Max and Marian Farash Charitable Foundation; the Mary S. Mulligan Charitable Trust; the Rochester Area Community Foundation; the Ames-Amzalak Memorial Trust in memory of Henry Ames, Semon Amzalak, and Dan Amzalak; the LGBT Fund of Greater Rochester; and contributions from many individuals nationwide. See Colophon on page 72 for special individual acknowledgments.

      Cover Design: Daphne Morrissey

      Cover Photograph: Courtesy of Diana Marie Delgado

      Interior Design and Composition: Richard Foerster

      BOA Logo: Mirko

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: Delgado, Diana Marie, 1975– author.

      Title: Tracing the horse / poems by Diana Marie Delgado.

      Description: First edition. | Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2019. | Series: New poets of America series ; no. 43

      Identifiers: LCCN 2019019270| ISBN 9781942683872 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781942683889 (ebk.)

      Classification: LCC PS3604.E44386 A6 2019 | DDC 811/.6—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019019270

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