Be Recorder: Poems

This is an intense collection dealing with the status of Latinx immigrants/second gen immigrants in the current State, and how that is uncomfortably entangled with the poets identity. The beginning deals with their past; the titular middle section is raw and angry and frustrated layers of image and sound reflecting dealing with the current; the last section moves through present speculating to the future. It's super timely and emotional so I can see why it's received so much acclaim, but I had a hard time really connecting — probably my upper middle class whiteness speaking, more than anything.

If I had one poetry book in my collection, it would be this one.

I will simply forget “American Mythos”, disrupter of the sublime.