Despojo

Despojo is a testament to so many things: the pain and
healing in the aftermath of sexual violence, the lineages
Tatiana honors and writes within, the fact that love
is a verb. The poems in Despojo carry an impossible
amount of compassion for their subjects. I learn from
Tatiana Figueroa Ramirez the act of staying put and
just looking; she is a poet deeply invested in witnessing

her family and ancestry, in writing with an uncom-
promising eye towards balancing the truth and the

turmoil. She never turns away. I am so lulled by her
language, which is so skillful it has a spine. Flowers
dot the pages, the air becomes thinner and sweet with
molasses. Do yourself a favour and learn what it really
means to trace lineage, to write with strength towards
people who have hurt you, to stand and carry an entire
history on your shoulders.
--Nancy Huang, Author of Favorite Daughter

Paperback, 54 Pages