{"product_id":"the-hormone-of-darkness-a-playlist","title":"The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bilingual selection of tender, transgressive poems by a Peruvian poet and multimedia artist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Tilsa Otta's \u003ci\u003eThe Hormone of Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e, we find a queer, Latinx person who has lived through iterations of authoritarian rule, and who answers these conditions by creating poetry that doubles down on a life force that precedes and exceeds received notions of the poetic. Here poetry is bawdy, fabulist, and spiritual--in short, it is alive. Otta has created a heaven where readers can go after they die. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from four volumes spanning Otta's career, translator-poet Farid Matuk has curated a playlist we can dance and dream to, one that honors Otta's drive toward liberation through both \u003ci\u003eperreo\u003c\/i\u003e in the club and transdimensional wandering among the stars.","brand":"Tilsa Otta","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44515968712746,"sku":"9781644453131","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/imageloader_38b1bd71-b882-4f4b-849a-4816c7f7b9f6.jpg?v=1782705609","url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/products\/the-hormone-of-darkness-a-playlist","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}