What She Saw in The Lotería Cards, by M. Garcia Teutsch

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features.

What She Saw in the Lotería Cards can be understood as a cartography of identity—mapping emotional, cultural, familial, and bodily terrains. The use of Lotería cards is more than decorative—it offers a mythopoetic framework that grounds intimate, raw stories in universal symbols. The poems explore the connection between the mythic with the mundane, the intimate with the political, and the tragic with the tender. The collection explores the interwoven themes of heritage, desire, domestic ritual, and spiritual metamorphosis.

Structured in four distinct sections—The Inheritance, Desire and Distance, The Seeker, and The Surrender What She Saw in the Lotería Cards maps the complex terrain of feminine experience grounded in cultural specificity and mythic resonance. Each poem stands as a vignette—a moment of revelation, rupture, or reinvention—offering readers a multifaceted narrative of womanhood across generations and geographies.

M. Garcia Teutsch is an award-winning poet, professor and experimental filmmaker. She is the founder of Ping-Pong Free Press and Poet Republik. www.poetrepublik.com