Bøker av Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

A lyrical debut exploring the emotional fallout of immigration, childbirth, queer desire within a heteronormative marriage, and, ultimately, belonging.

The poems in Dulce are at once confession and elegy that admit the speaker's attempt and possible failure to reconcile intimacy toward another and toward the self. The collection asks: what's the point in any of this? - meaning, what's the use of longing beyond pleasure; what's the use of looking for an origin if we already know the ending?