"Elegant and enduring, abounding in retrieval and revelation, this book is alive with the totality of feeling, sharp with the splendor of true personhood."

~ SASHA ROQUE PIMENTEL, author of For Want of Water

"The beautiful strangeness of language and the sobering strangeness of life are braided into lyrical brilliance in Aldo Amparán’s second book... These poems are undeniable and exquisite."

~ EDUARDO C. CORRAL, author of Guillotine

"These poems reminded me about my own body and the unique circumstances of being alive: to desire is to break yourself against oceans, to love is to notice the snow outside, to grieve is to fill a 'room with a river.'"

~ JAKE SKEETS, author of Eyes Bottle Dark With a Mouthful of Flowers