A fluid, expansive new collection from a poet whose work "dazzles with (an) energetic exploration of the Puerto Rican experience in the new millennium" (NBC News).
Puerto Rican poet Vincent Toro's new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the tertulia) and revises it for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, the collection examines immigration, economics, colonialism, and race via the sublime imagery of music, visual art, and history. Toro draws from his own social justice work in various US cities to create a kaleidoscopic vision of the connections between the personal and the political, the local and the global, in a work that both celebrates and questions the complexities of the human condition.