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In the Catalog
I Offer My Heart as A Target
Ofrezco Mi Corazón Como Una Diana
Johanny Vázquez Paz
Winner of the 2018 Paz Prize for Poetry, this bilingual volume traverses the author’s experiences as a U.S. citizen in Puerto Rico, colorism and misogyny, without letting go of hope and perseverance.
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The Insistence of Harm
Fernando Valverde
“The Insistence of Harm” is a series of poignant lyric poems that takes readers from India to the Balkans to Spain and Latin America, exploring the nature of harm in its various guises: war, disease, heartbreak, suicide.
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Losing Miami
Gabriel Ojeda-Sague
“Losing Miami” is an experiment in grieving the potential loss of Miami to rising sea levels. What are we losing if we lose Miami, a seemingly impossible city formed out of Caribbean migration and the transformation of language?
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One Day I Will Save Myself
Poems in English and Spanish
Elvira Sastre
The debut US poetry collection from social media star Elvira Sastre, exploring the sharp, slippery moments that turn a beloved relationship into something self-destructive.
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While They Sleep (Under the Bed Is Another Country)
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
In fragmentary prose poems, the author describes the intersection of colonialism and damage from Hurricane María on Puerto Rico, using the metaphor of the bed America has made and in which it must now lie.