75 pages
Published 2024
Read September 4
Rating: 4 out of 5
A delicate and powerful collection of science fiction poetry, at turns funny and heartbreaking, inspiring and grim, rich with hope and community and connection in spite of the exploitation of white-supremacist capitalism destroying the world around us.
Imbalances of power shape the poetry of this collection. Class, race, ethnicity, age -- Iniguez uses sci-fi and poetry to explore these present marginizations, future hopes, and repeating patterns of exploitation. Topics range from Iniguez's classic poem "The Epidemic of Shrink-Ray-Gun Violence in Our Schools Must End" to the Latine generation ship in "Forever Elusive," which, having learned hard lessons from colonizers, avoid repeating their iniquities.
Unrelated, I highly recommend reading poetry in a tent in the morning sun while the birds sing.
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