Tanto Tanto

Marina Carreira (she/her/hers) is a queer Luso-American writer and multimedia artist from Newark, New Jersey. She is the author of Save the Bathwater and I Sing to That Bird Knowing It Won’t Sing Back.

“Tanto Tanto is a rich, complex, and breathtaking tapestry of desire, longing, pleasure, sorrow, and, above all, love. The collection creates a fractal love letter centering on the relationship between the speaker and her wife, but also encompassing the love for their children, the self, poetry, and the body (with the latter as a sight of joy, pleasure, resilience, and spirit). With a voice that is marvelously both tender and vigorous, Carreira moves us to experience love in tuna sandwiches, the divine in the every day, and terror in driving home from the grocery store. Tanto Tanto celebrates the speaker’s love while also masterfully navigating the gifts and cruelties of inheritance growing up in a heteronormative working-class immigrant family, and the fear and violence of life as an immigrant LGBTQ woman in America. Tanto Tanto is gorgeous, sensual, intersectional, intimate and large, honest and real. I was enthralled and moved by this collection.”

• Tanto Tanto Baptism Autobiography of a Fufa Baby Steps (an Ars Poetica) Morning Song What the Water Gave Me Estou a Sentir Só Este MomentoIf I Weren’t This Body Tanto Tanto Lines Pussy in Space Love During Retrograde Telling Another Story When My Mother Tells Me I’ll Always Be a LoserBrunch Capela da Nossa Senhora dos Aflitos While Six Planets Retrograde, I Consider Mandalas & America Pussy Cleans the Bathroom Tanto Tanto Ten Things I Never Told the Homophobic Portuguese Woman on Ferry Street Oracular Apology To the Snails I Crushed in My Youth The Quiet New Hope Ode To My Pussy Scar Hum for Impending Icestorm Fado for My Last Love Tanto Tanto The Body To Know Saudade in America Sometimes the Bird Sometimes the Hunter Sometimes Both Savage Beauty Pussy Writes Horror PansyTanto Tanto Irreparable Harm Like I’m Already Dead On the Last Night of Pride Poem Where I Try Not to Think About My Partner’s Existential Crisis Hard An Abecedarian of Gratitude Your Pussy Sonnet for This Queer BodyTanto Tanto