THE RUST OF HISTORY - Sotero Rivera Avilés

Translated from Spanish by Raquel Salas Rivera  This moving intergenerational translation of a poet whose life and work can teach us so much about history and Black Puerto Rico by a poet making history right now is a study in the stakes of transofrmation. In these poems and in Salas Riera's return to his grandfather's context, we get a felt sense of change, loss, and longing on the scale of the body, the barrio, the country, the revolution, and the soul. -Alexis Pauline Gumbs