Thresholes

Autostraddle's “Books Relevant to Your Queer and Feminist Interests in 2020” and Latin Post's “Must Read Books by Latin Authors in 2020”In elegiac and fervent poetry, Lara Mimosa Montes writes across the thresholds of fracture, trauma, violence, and identity. Thresholes is both a doorway and an absence, a roadmap and a remembering.

In this almanac of place and memory, Lara Mimosa Montes writes of her family’s past, returning to the Bronx of the 70s and 80s and the artistry that flourished there.

What is the threshold between now and then, and how can the poet be the bridge between the two?