Spirituality

Overview "FingerPrint is a collection of poems that weaves arcs of family and spirituality with bodily autonomy and acceptance. Expanding on the concrete and contrapuntal poetic forms, the poems physically create a set of hands by assuming the translated shape of the hands' cross sectional slices. The collection starts at the tips of the middle fingers, then moves down the fingers, knuckles, palms, and finally the wrists. These hands frame core questions: What do they reach towards? What do they hold...

Overview "Heirlooms summons fragmented ancestral memory to illustrate the speaker's gendered relationships to land and place. In the first half of the collection, the speaker traverses a lineage of matriarchs and the delicate relationships between Puerto Rican women who survive displacement and diaspora. Through ritual and a multilingual incantation, the speaker honors the complexities of generational difference and struggle within an American setting. In the second half, the collection reflects upon...