Uprising / Alzamiento

Lisbeth Coiman is a dazzling new voice. With tender rage, she excavates what it means to love and grieve a homeland."

-Ariel Gore, author of Hexing the Patriarchy: 26 Potions, Spells, and Magical Elixirs to

Embolden the Resistance and F*ck Happiness.

"Lisbeth Coiman writes 'Before I was born / A pristine future / streamed down from El vila tributaries' in the opening of her poem "El Guaire." With these words and beyond, I am also taken to my point in history, the promise that we are all born into without knowing what's to come, and how we are as individuals and as a collective, forced to reckon with a past that we are killing off to chase a promise of a better future. For immigrants, this carries a bigger weight, as we are both killers of self while our selves are so often the victims of a society that wants to kill us. Coiman's collection is a deeply personal work that makes us revisit the guilts and the angers that we carry."

-Chiwan Choi, author of The Yellow House