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
