I wanted to log each one of them, create my own alternative narrative through them. And the more I read, the more I paid attention to my own dreams. Bruja is a series of dreams written between 20, only separated by the months in which they occur and the space on the page between each dream. The book reveals as much about the reader’s psyche, about the self and the readers’ reaction to reading it, as it does about the author- this deeply personal thing, a dream, so full of symbols we imbue with our own shared and cultural meanings. I wanted to recreate the structure of those dreams, as if my mind was somehow trying to create its own narrative out of each dream I read. Throughout the book I found myself wanting to index the people, recurring themes, events, and places. Once I cracked open that first page I became obsessed. I had no idea what to expect from a dreamoir- I’d never heard of or read one- until Bruja. Ortiz’s work through her memoir, Excavation, a dizzying experience of a five-year long relationship during her teenage years with a teacher who was fifteen years her senior, and then through her poetry.
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