The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist by Tilsa Otta

The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist

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The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist by Tilsa Otta

Graywolf Press

The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist

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A bilingual selection of tender, transgressive poems by a Peruvian poet and multimedia artist

In Tilsa Otta's The Hormone of Darkness, 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.

Drawing 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 perreo in the club and transdimensional wandering among the stars.
Book Details
Publisher:
Graywolf Press
ISBN:
9781644453131
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
160
Authors:
Tilsa Otta
Published Date:
2024-10-15
Language:
English
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About Tilsa Otta

Five poetry collections, published in Peru and Mexico between 2004 and 2016, mark the early career of Tilsa Otta, a Lima-born writer and multimedia artist. Mi niña veneno en el jardín de las baladas del recuerdo and Indivisible appeared from Álbum del Universo Bakterial in 2004 and 2007, preceding Antimateria: Gran acelerador de poemas, published by Mexico's Juan Malasuerte in 2016. The novel Lxs niñxs de oro de la alquimia sexual followed, released by Random House in 2021. She trained in film direction in Lima and holds a master's degree in film studies from Madrid's LENS School of Visual Arts. Farid Matuk translated her poems into English as The Hormone of Darkness (Graywolf Press, 2024).

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