"Lisbeth Coiman is a dazzling new voice. With tender rage, she excavates what it means to love and grieve a homeland." Ariel Gore, author of Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to Embolden the Resistance and F*ck Happiness.…

In Wild West, the author explores the unprotected civic space and the abandonment brought about by a State that, perilously, has withdrawn from the city. From this perspective, the work reflects on the destruction caused by the collapse of social…

A body just beginning to define itself discovers the inadequacy of imposed language. Though it rebels and implodes, the machinery it opposes is a shadow that spreads—an unanswerable question and, ultimately, a sentence. In Dear Parent or Guardian,…

"The author began writing this poetry collection ten years ago, following the murder of two women (mother and daughter) in Caracas. The news coverage focused more on sensationalism than on denouncing violence, as photos of the two women’s burned…

"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…

For Caribbean culture, sunlight is an energy that dispels the "I" and the world. Under that intense light, madness and fragmentation ensue. Juan Luis Landaeta's Litoral Central unfolds verbally under a solar storm that decants its words and…