The Hormone of Darkness: A Playlist

By Tilsa Otta

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644453134
• ISBN13: 9781644453131
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.6" x 9.0"