The Hormone of Darkness kochanie

The Hormone of Darkness kochanieTilsa Otta (trans. Farid Matuk) In Tilsa Ottas 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 spiritualin short, it is alive. Otta has created a heaven where readers can go after they die. Drawing from four

The pieces are not linked

and take the assault course of form by cranking out the odd villanelle

and Festival Internacional de Poesía de la Ciudad de México

verwierf het een cultstatus

and recent political disasters

psychedelic Bildungsromane

Deze uitgave

The line between observer and observed blurs as non-human agency reveals itself

In the midst of capitalist ruin

formally inventive and disturbingly of our time

ongeluk en verslaving slachtoffers werden van “verdwijningen” die de dichter in zijn poëzie thematiseert

Behalve artikelen en hoofdstukken in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften en leerboeken schreef hij ook essays over psychiatrie in de algemene maatschappelijke context