Melissa Lozada-Oliva on Bringing Selena Back to Life

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Nov 2, 2021
On Día de los Muertos, poet, writer, and musician Melissa Lozada-Oliva joins us to talk her new book, Dreaming of You: A Novel in Verse. The novel follows a Latinx poet, working through loneliness and heartache, as she decides one day to bring Tejano pop star Selena Quintanilla-Pérez back to life. Lozada-Oliva's writing interrogates themes of Latinidad and womanhood, as well as fandom and obsession, as her young poet tries to resurrect the iconic star.

 

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