Invocation to Daughters

women in patterned cloth dresses, in motion, perhaps in dance

The “We” in Barbara Jane Reyes’s Invocation to Daughters

ByYasmin Adele Majeed

Women’s writing is so often ghettoized and hidden from view. Women write from the private, individual “I,” while men write of the public and the universal “we.” In her newest collection, Invocation to Daughters, Filipino American poet Barbara Jane Reyes boldly and loudly refuses that division.