Patriot -- Homecoming. Praise song for my mutilated world -- Scenes from Operation Just Cause -- 20 de Dicembre, 1989: when the U.S. invades Panama -- When the narcos kidnap JuanFe -- The art of diplomacy -- Bread pudding Grandmamma -- Poder -- Immigrante -- Conception -- How to dream about a woman -- ba-by -- Pietà€ by Michelangelo: marble, 1499 -- OTM or Other Than Mexican -- Mirror woman -- Marvelous sugar baby -- Citzen -- Cristo Negro de Portobelo -- Af-ri-can-Am-er-i-can-ize -- African Klan suit #2 -- Ferguson, USA -- Link -- Ode to my Father, the Captain -- Breaking & entering -- Angelitos Negros -- Patriot -- The down-low messiahs -- Power bottom -- Vinyl -- I always promised I would never do drag -- Arroz con pollo -- Joseph on knowledge in the bibliical sense -- All legs lead to Naomi Campbell -- Rihanna & child -- Naturalization -- Black parade -- Homecoming.
Summary:
Darrel Alejandro Holnes meditates on migration, and the American dream. He reminds us that Blackness is everywhere, persevering against erasure and violence. This collection is a satisfying and essential second book that leaves us excited for all that is to come from this poet. --Yesenia Montilla author of "The Pink Box"
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