Táto autorka skúma zložité identity a kultúrne dedičstvo prostredníctvom poézie a prózy. Jej diela sa ponárajú do tém ako láska, komunita a osobná transformácia s jedinečnou citlivosťou. Autorka často využíva mytológiu a folklór na osvetlenie súčasných ľudských skúseností. Jej písanie je intímne aj univerzálne a rezonuje s čitateľmi hľadajúcimi hlbšie pochopenie seba samých a sveta.
A collection of lyric essays / creative non-fiction about growing up into and practicing Pinay poetry/poetics, as a young immigrant and daughter of hustling immigrants, woman of color writer, educator and mentor
Reyes's unapologetic intersectionally feminist "tough love" poems show young women of color, especially Filipinas, how to survive oppression with fearlessness.
"Feminist experimental poetry in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha from a prominent Filipina American poet"-- "The fifth collection from Oakland poet Barbara Jane Reyes, in the tradition of Audre Lorde and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Invocation to Daughters is a book of prayers, psalms, and odes for Filipina girls and women trying to survive and make sense of their own situations. Writing in an English inflected with Tagalog and Spanish, Reyes unleashes this colonized tongue against sexualized and racialized violence towards Pinay women. With its meditations on the relationship between fathers and daughters and impassioned pleas on behalf of victims of brutality, Invocation to Daughters is a lyrical feminist broadside written from a place of shared humanity"--