Our Obsidian Tongues

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. David Shook's debut collection employs the city as a lens through which to explore the multiplicity of voices that inhabit it, cannibalizing a wide range of his predecessors—from the Classical Nahuatl singers of the Aztec empire to the contemporary poets of Mexico City—to scrape away the city's grunge and reveal hidden layers of sediment and story.