Raquel Salas Rivera
Winning me over entirely with their fiercely rendered tenderness and emergent sense of a simultaneously tough and tender I, these poems and their speaker are, to use so simple a word for so complex a world, strong. Strong.
—Alberto Ríos, winner of the Walt Whitman Award
Raquel opens to us, and we join them—as friends, as family, as warriors. His investment in strength in numbers means that collectively these poems become more and more powerful, each one drawing on the strength of the other. And this investment means that we draw power from becoming a part of Raquel’s world. Raquel calls to us “come here/ i invoke you. let’s invoke ourselves together,” and together, we do."
—Carmen Giménez Smith, Boston Review "Poet's Sampler"
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Like no poet I have ever read, Raquel Salas Rivera talks to Marx via the monstrous colonial devastation of Puerto Rico. This genius poet also speaks to Trotsky who said workers could not make art. Here is one of the most riveting, beautifully written declarative poetics of our lives! A fierce document that fully transfers its radical transformative powers into our bones! —CA Conrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death |