"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."

~ 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 Horses