A bilingual selection of tender, transgressive poems by a Peruvian poet and multimedia artist In Tilsa Otta?s The Hormone of Darkness, we find a queer, Latinx person who has lived through iterations of authoritarian rule, and who answers these conditions by creating poetry that doubles down on a life force that precedes and exceeds received notions of the poetic. Here poetry is bawdy, fabulist, and spiritual?in short, it is alive. Otta has created a heaven where readers can go after they die. Drawing from four volumes spanning Otta?s career, translator-poet Farid Matuk has curated a playlist we can dance and dream to, one that honors Otta?s drive toward liberation through both perreo in the club and transdimensional wandering among the stars.
| Author: Tilsa Otta |
| Publisher: NA |
| Publication Date: Oct 15, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: NA pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Paperback |
| ISBN-10: 1644453134 |
| ISBN-13: 9781644453131 |
