Ashley Miranda
ISBN: 978-1-949099-01-0
26 pages
"dolores in spanish is pain, dolores in lolita is a girl focuses on violence against women and girls. Sexual assault isn’t just a one-time occurrence; its effects stay long after the trauma has occurred, and the poems portray this masterfully. This is definitely a chapbook you need to read and reread again and again; its subject matter could not be more important, but also, these poems could not have been written any other way."
— Joanna C. Valente, author of Sexting Ghosts
"Ashley Miranda writes from a world where a special category exists for the expendable girl: “nymphets / defined as suicide, sex crimes, special victims unit.” In this (our) world, “nymphets are fictional,” but real girls are nonetheless assigned the role. dolores in spanish is pain, dolores in lolita is a girlis written for girls whose pussies taste like grief, girls who “don’t know very well,” girls who drape themselves in pink and question what that makes them, and Miranda’s Dolores aka Lolita delicately treads the split identity of sexual empowerment and exploitation."
— Isobel O’Hare, author of all this can be yours