Written in the early days of the rise of world-wide fascism and the poet's gender transition, x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/poems for the nation accepts the invitation to push poetic and gender imaginaries beyond the bounds set by nation. From teen dysphoria, to the incarceration of anticolonial activists Oscar López and Nina Droz Franco, to the entanglement of church and state, these poems acknowledge the violence of imposed binaries. For Salas Rivera, the x marks Puerto Rican transness in a world that seeks trans death, denial, and erasure. Instead of justifying his existence, he takes up the flag of illegibility and writes an apocalyptic book that screams into an uncertain future, armed with nothing to lose. In today's post-disaster Puerto Rico and a world shaped by the recurring waves of an ecological apocalypse, Salas Rivera's words feel visionary, mapping a decolonizing territory, a body, and identity of both soil and heart.&nbsp; &nbsp;

x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación (Ambroggio Prize) (English and Spanish Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Salas Rivera, Raquel

Poetry

University of Arizona Press

Este libro, de la poeta laureada Raquel Salas Rivera, apela a la nostalgia de todo lo que se deja atrás, cuando se va uno de su país: amores, familia y un sinnúmero de luchas quedan siempre --intermitentes-- en nuestro interior.

Tierra intermitente | Intermittent Land: Bilingual

Literary

Independently published

Poetry. Latinx Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. Bilingual Edition. ELEGÍA/ELEGY is baptized by queer loss and losing. Each section deifies lost cuir/queer loves, closing the distance between deity (queer icon) and fam. The book delves into the (im)possibility of building between lo cuir boricua and the queerness of being boricua in the diaspora. It invites the reader to "learn to tell the difference between our love and theirs," and to see, in this difference, a way forward.

Elegía/elegy (Chapbook, 23)

Anomalous Press

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