The Hormone of Darkness Making Water Her life and work become

Her life and work become more than a sound bite

Auston Stewart

prioritising Irish reunification

‘the moon / a red spot on a burnt-out sky’

the student of modernism and the Beckett specialist

The Hormone of Darkness Making Water Her life and work becomeTilsa Otta (trans. Farid Matuk) In Tilsa Ottas 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 spiritualin short, it is alive. Otta has created a heaven where readers can go after they die. Drawing from four