Diaz, Jose Hernandez. The Fire Eater: Poems. Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2020.
I’ve been wanting to read more prose poetry lately, and I’m always interested in reading Latinx authors whose work I haven’t encountered before, so when I heard about this book that is exclusively prose poems I decided to buy it.
Tsai, Addie. Unwieldy Creatures. San Diego: Jaded Ibis Press, 2022.
The blurb describes this novel as “a biracial, queer, gender-swapped retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.” So obviously as soon as I heard about it I ordered it.