Orange
Format:Paperback
Publisher:CavanKerry Press
Publishing:5th May '26
£17.00
This title is due to be published on 5th May, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A bold and tender portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx.
Through narrative poems and innovative forms inspired by color theory and elementary school, Orange explores the ripple effects of queerness, lies, and finding yourself in a family. In this visceral new collection, however, the scope of “family” expands well beyond the nuclear unit; Noel Quiñones’s poems center relationships between friends, cousins, partners, and many other family members. Painting a vivid and fraught portrait of the North Bronx, Quiñones unflinchingly confronts the contradictions at the heart of love, divorce, gender, religion, and community, unpacking the complexities of coming out, divorced parents, and generational trauma. Orange ultimately argues that truth resembles color: something real, yet elusive, and impossible to prove.
ORANGE is a joyful, heart-thumping, grief-slick, language-sparkling romp through memory and becoming. Every page is humming with the music of what it means to be alive and brown and queer and brilliant in a world that too often forgets to see you whole. Structured around color theory and anchored in a bold love letter to the body’s brightness, these poems navigate family ruptures, first loves, and the ache of moving towards a future full of rowdy song.
These poems are patient and visceral, familial and mold-breaking. They don’t expect easy answers, but instead shine light on the liminal space between guilt and innocence, individuality and community, connection and isolation. ORANGE pulses with place and honors that “no two Bronxs are the same.” From the many saints of Norwood to parental monologues clawing at catharsis, this debut is both an archive and a testament. It asks anew the questions we all at some point need to face: Where do I come from? Who has it made me? And who have I made myself?
ISBN: 9781960327208
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 454g
104 pages