antes que isla es volcan / before island is volcano av Raquel Salas Rivera

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<b>Gold Medal Winner of the Juan Felipe Herrera Award for Bilingual Poetry<br><br>From the National Book Award-nominated, Lambda Award-winning poet: a powerful, inventive new collection that looks to the future of Puerto Rico with love, rage, beauty, and hope</b><br><br>Raquel Salas Rivera’s star has risen swiftly in the poetry world, and this, his 6th book, promises to cement his status as one of the most important poets working today. In sharp, crystalline verses, written in both Spanish and English versions, <i>antes que isla es volcán</i> daringly imagines a decolonial Puerto Rico.<br><br>Salas Rivera unfurls series after series of poems that build in intensity: one that casts Puerto Rico as the island of Caliban in Shakespeare’s <i>The Tempest</i>, another that imagines a multiverse of possibilities for Puerto Rico’s fate, a 3rd in which the poet demands his right to a future and its immediate distribution. The verses are rigorous and sophisticated, engagi