https://www.cristinajbaptista.com/blog-1 daily 0.75 2021-01-03 https://www.cristinajbaptista.com/about daily 0.75 2024-07-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d73a05dd8eb1e7bda9d06/1ac42ae8-664f-45f9-b6ce-1cd0eab9c0c3/IMG_0139.jpg https://www.cristinajbaptista.com/publications daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d73a05dd8eb1e7bda9d06/1618782369315-N278T1XBS9C5B4M493J7/Taking+Her+Back+Cover.jpg Publications A ship is a paradox, both home and grave, wood and water, forward-venturing and anchor to the past: like magic and miracle, it transforms all who sail aboard her in ways unspeakable. In 2014, Cristina J. Baptista was one of 85 people selected to sail aboard the world’s last remaining wooden whaleship, the 1841 vessel Charles W. Morgan. The result of this 38th Voyage of the Morgan is Taking Her Back, a poetry collection that gives voice to the immigrant experience, particularly those of the Portuguese figures once called by anthropologists the “invisible minority.” Combining historical records, news reports, literary allusions, myths, and personal experience, Taking Her Back reclaims the lost voices of the thousands of whalemen—often illiterate, mostly diminished—who kept so much of the world afloat. Ultimately, these poems illuminate, as sun reflecting upon the sea, the depths of a human history and the roots of a forgotten American past. Like lines of rigging linking parts of a ship, the poems in Taking Her Back connect the past, present, and possible future through a lens of antiquity and personal nostalgia—and a haunting space between them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d73a05dd8eb1e7bda9d06/1662161473413-DVM0UIGZ2VEW8KFKT7W4/CBA22-event.png Publications - Taking Her Back Finalist: 2022 Connecticut Book Award, “Poetry” Category https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d73a05dd8eb1e7bda9d06/1598118749705-24EOD88XU9UU6KFK04IR/Baptista_Cristina_COV.jpg Publications “A book of family, of daughters and mothers, of fathers and brothers, and, especially, of women defying and defiant, Cristina Baptista’s The Drowning Book compels us to consider the fragility and resilience of human experience. Singularly voiced, these poems reckon with a world where “everything is a surface preparing / to break, a first time,” and they go on to hope that, “in all breaking, something must grow.” For all the devastation Baptista conjures and confronts in these poems, she also testifies to that which makes “each of us an heir to Icarus / falling as we dream // dreaming as we fall.” Call it a fortunate fate that we might immerse ourselves in these poems: The Drowning Book is a marvelous debut.” –Jordan Windholz, author of Other Psalms (2015, University of North Texas Press; 2014 Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Winner) “Cristina Baptista‘s poems ripple with the most beautiful and haunting particulars. Her poems move through the world with clarity and compassion, showing us the universal joys and pains of being a human being in this raging century. The Drowning Book is a marvelous poetic achievement.” –Todd Colby, author of Splash State (2014, The Song Cave) https://www.cristinajbaptista.com/etcresources daily 0.75 2024-10-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f3d73a05dd8eb1e7bda9d06/1598546779642-H8QKRZ224ZGPNYBEOHSQ/P1000108.jpg Etc. - At left: Cristina with the Morgan in New Bedford, Massachusetts, the morning before her leg of the voyage began. Photograph (c) Cristina J. 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