"What remains beneath the tongue after a conversation? What endures beyond writing that dutifully adheres to grammar, morality, and the aesthetic traditions that shape the poem? It is that negative residue, that newfound force of what refuses to be…

"In Study of the Raft, Leonora Simonovis's poems weave the outer world of a failed political revolution in her native country, Venezuela, with an inner journey into the memories of migration and exile, of a home long gone, and of family relations,…

"Every cosmonaut is, at heart, a castaway. It is enough to imagine that vast expanse we cowardly call outer space—a vastness that resists both our gaze and our imagination. And in the middle of it, place a human body, covered by a second skin as…

How long can you hold your breath and follow a string to the bottom of a waterfall? Contra el régimen de lo fluido asks how you would fall knowing you must resist. These poems are mnemonic screenshots of the author’s request for affirmative asylum to…

"A poetic song of migration, uprootedness, and love as resistance against pain and silence. Aunque me extinga is a book written from the perspective of migration, foreignness, and displacement, woven together through desire and love as barricades…

"The poem, the verses—a play of forms, inscriptions. Definitions, abrupt exits and entrances. Opposites: the outside, the inside. Interior/exterior: words, silences. To walk, to retrace, to affirm/deny. To be and not to be. But to be. Ultimately, one…