The light must spill to shine. The thing you must be is yourself.
Intimate and uncompromising, Rev. Julián Jamaica, Soto's debut collection Spilling the Light, is a luminous offering to their communities and a defiant declaration of their worth in a world hostile to their queer, disabled, and brown being.
"America, is this freedom?" they ask. "I cannot prove to you that / I am a person," writing boldly of identity, community, liberation, and erasure through a prism of tender moments and powerful reckonings. These are poems of broken hallelujahs and codes/witching, of hunger and fire, of hope and resilience. They are complex, tender, and empowering. They embolden us to become our truest selves, willing us to survive.
| ISBN: | 9781558969186 |
| Publication date: | 13th June 2024 |
| Author: | Julián Jamaica Soto |
| Publisher: | Skinner House an imprint of Skinner House Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Genres: |
Gender studies: ‘trans’, transgender people and gender variance Complementary therapies, healing and health |