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1. Jose Hernandez Diaz

The Lighthouse Tattoo

1. Jose Hernandez Diaz

Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man

“Jose Hernandez Diaz's poems cut through the modern acrobatics of the dazzling poetry parade in service of a straightforward and boldly honest approach. With cool constraint, he ‘abandons the hierarchies’ of language and chisels out the diamonds of our menial lives, ‘not for the ego's sake, but for love.’ And because of this, we trust his witness, his testimony of the people and places that populate this worthy collection.”—Tim Z. Hernandez, author of Some of the Light “What joys, what celebrations, and what tributes await the reader of Jose Hernandez Diaz’s Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man. Through a voice of such intense clarity, Diaz utilizes both the ode and the prose poem as methods of defiance—pushing back against oppressive forces while creating poetic space for homage, as well as new, more nuanced histories; James Joyce, Lorca, Neruda, Holden Caulfield, José Emilio Pacheco, and Mrs. Weir, a high school English teacher, are just some of the literary cast of characters that are recontextualized in worlds that are surreal, at times absurd, and existential. The various speakers in the collection are in search for their sense of belonging while external forces constantly remind them of their otherness. Poetry. Poetry is where the speaker lands, finds his place, and invites us in. Ultimately, a directive in the midst of social and political unrest: ‘we must remember not to be loaded weapons aimed at each other.”—Iliana Rocha, author of The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez 

1. Jose Hernandez Diaz

The Parachutist

1. Maia Gil'Adí

Doom Patterns

Maia Gil’Adí takes up Latinx and Latinx-adjacent speculative fiction as a site for theorizing Latinx identity across national and ethnic borders as it is informed by historical trauma. In so doing, she allows for a more capacious consideration of the speculative, realism, history, and the role of violence in literature.

1. Maia Gil'Adí

Doom Patterns

“Maia Gil’AdÍ approaches Latinx speculative fiction as a paradigm to read through Latinx studies, posing sharp questions that warrant serious consideration. By putting works that normally would not be placed in conversation with each other, such as Colson Whitehead’s Zone One and Cristina GarcÍa’s Dreaming in Cuban, Gil’AdÍ not only sheds new light on these works; she generates a new conversation altogether. Her innovative interventions make Doom Patterns a bold, generative, and liberating move for Latinx studies.” - Catherine S. Ramírez, author of (Assimilation: An Alternative History) “Maia Gil’AdÍ troubles the bounds of Latinx literature. Across sumptuous readings of speculative fiction, she reveals ‘doom patterns’ of recurrent violence not only in literature but as the cohering logic of a hemispheric latinidad. In so doing, she problematizes concepts and practices of canonicity, reframes theorizations of the borderlands, and challenges conventions for taxonomies of Latinx literature. Doom Patterns is essential reading for scholars of Latinx literature, multiethnic literature, English, and Latinx studies and American studies more broadly.” - Leticia Alvarado, author of (Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production)