Cruel Futures YA by Raquel Gutiérrez

by Raquel Gutiérrez

and Oprah Winfrey

provocative book

and the Lands Within the Seas that became China

and thrive in the face of life’s challenges

Cruel Futures YA by Raquel Gutiérrezby Carmen Gimnez Smith A Latina feminist State of the Union address at the intersection of pop culture and interiority. Cruel Futures is a witchy confessional and wildly imagistic volume that examines subjects as divergent as Alzheimers, Medusa, mumblecore, and mental illness in sharp witted, taut poems dense with song. Chronicling life on an endangered planet, in a country on the precipice of profound change compelled by a media machine that produces