The prose poems in YOU scour the distance between girlhood and motherhood with wit, fraying into ruminations on all that’s inherited as a woman surviving gendered violence. 


Rosa Alcalá choreographs language to understand the body as it “gathers itself over time to become whole,” recovering the speaker’s intuition while unraveling memory to pinpoint the aches, anxieties, and lessons of feminine survival. Ruminating on daughterhood, mothering, and the body's cumulative wisdom, YOU traces a jagged line through fears and joys both past and present.