Sale!
The Butcher's Granddaughter by Adela Sinclair

The Butcher’s Granddaughter by Adela Sinclair

Original price was: $22.99.Current price is: $20.99.

 

This is a sharp, powerful collection about lineage, betrayal, body image, burden, survival. Written in a direct, haunting manner, these stories and vignettes reveal the plight and nuances of the Romanian immigrant experience. This is an illuminating narrative with a compelling, necessary voice.

–Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of Bad Mexican, Bad American.

 

 

Adela Sinclair’s The Butcher’s Granddaughter is a look at the family through the body’s lens, beginning with a poem that startles in the line “When he asked, I would choke with him” and moving to “I squeal when she pounds me with the wooden spoon on the side of my leg.” The lives depicted are fierce and passionate. The larger picture in the book touches on Romania and the fall of communism. These poems are shells breaking open to expose the most vulnerable. In the end, we are rooting for the voice of the poems to love herself hard.

–Olena Jennings, author of The Age of Secrets

 

The Butcher’s Granddaughter by Adela Sinclair will take you on a dizzying roller coaster of experiences and emotions so visceral, so raw and so multilayered that you will end up both exhausted and exhilarated, spent, unable to take one more step and ready to run a marathon, all at once. A Dantesque journey through the circles of the poet’s personal inferno of deep traumas, nostalgias, regrets, hopes and rage, Sinclair’s volume of prose poetry is a devastating love affair with the past, with the onslaught of memory and the experience of exile, with what one cannot but wishes to forget all while weaving in an intense and innovative language a tapestry of the Old World in its unapologetic mixture of violence and sentimentality. Each poem is an unforgettable vignette of life and death, a story retold from the dark hallways of trauma which the poetess is courageously reframing, possibly reliving in order to let go and to heal but also to incrust forever in poetic languages that carry the echoes of pigs squealing in the agony of slaughter, the fragrances of flowers, the bloody sight of wounds and of sexual violence, all in a strenuous but redemptive ascent towards the light and the stars. A poetic gem.

–DOMNICA RADULESCU, author of Train to Trieste, Country of Red Azaleas and Dream in a Suitcase

 

 

 

 

 

Categories: , ,

Description

The Butcher’s Granddaughter

by Adela Sinclair

Full-length, Paper

$20.99 List: $22.99

Pre-order Price Guarantee until April 25 , 2025

RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY

This title will be released on June 20, 2025

The Butcher’s Granddaughter by Adela Sinclair is a lyrical prose poetry collection that weaves together themes of resilience, identity, and the complexities of family history. Inspired by the evocative words of Jeanette Winterson, the book explores the legacy of a butcher’s lineage and the immigrant journey that brought Sinclair’s family to New York in 1987. Through vivid imagery and tender reflection, Sinclair examines the fragility and strength of human connections, paying homage to the sacrifices and triumphs of generations past while grappling with the echoes of memory and heritage. This poignant debut is a celebration of love, survival, and the enduring power of storytelling.

Adela Sinclair is a NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts)  Grant winning Romanian-American poet, translator, and teacher. Fluent in English, French, and Romanian, poetry is her primary, though not exclusive, medium. Her Chapbook entitled LA REVEDERE is now available through Finishing Line Press. Her poetry explores themes of cultural identity, memory, loss, trauma, and desire. Her work appears on “The Bridge,” published by Brooklyn Poets, and Tupelo Press’ “30/30 Project.” “On April 26, 1986, Chernobyl Exploded”, Adela’s poem is published in the Winter Anthology Healing Felines and Femmes by Other Worldly Women Press. Adela is currently working with an editor on her first full-length poetry collection, “The Butcher’s Granddaughter,” a lyrical memoir of her childhood in Romania. She has performed her poetry all over New York City including the Yale Club, 92nd Street Y, Bowery Poetry Club, Poet’s House, Brooklyn Poets, Books are Magic, KGB Bar, Saint Francis College, and Writer’s Voice at the JCC. She is a founding member and poetry editor of the emerging literary magazine, “Unbound Brooklyn,” and volunteers with Ugly Duckling Presse in Brooklyn. Adela holds a BA in French Culture and Civilization from SUNY Albany, with additional coursework at the Sorbonne University of Paris, an MA in Education from Hunter College (NYC), and an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from St. Francis College (Brooklyn).

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “The Butcher’s Granddaughter by Adela Sinclair”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related products