WINNER OF A 2019 WHITING AWARD, THE JOHN A. ROBERTSON BEST FIRST BOOK OF POETRY AWARD FROM THE TEXAS INSTITUTE OF LETTERS, AND A KATE TUFTS DISCOVERY AWARD FINALIST

Narrated by a speaker in mourning marked as an at-risk juvenile, Beast Meridian follows a first-generation Mexican-American girl in crisis surviving the painful experiences of a racialized girlhood, cultural displacement, generational trauma, familial loss, economic struggle, and violence. In turn, this collection radically dreams and imagines a surreal state in which these damages may be recovered, and in which the fragmented self may be remembered and re-membered.