Spilling the Light

By Julián Jamaica Soto

The light must spill to shine. The thing you must be is yourself.

Intimate and uncompromising, Rev. Juli n Jamaica Soto's debut collection Spilling the Light, is a luminous offering to their communities and a defiant declaration of their worth in a world hostile to their queer, disabled, and brown being.

"America, is this freedom?" they ask. "I cannot prove to you that / I am a person," writing boldly of identity, community, liberation, and erasure through a prism of tender moments and powerful reckonings. These are poems of broken hallelujahs and codes/witching, of hunger and fire, of hope and resilience. They are complex, tender, and empowering. They embolden us to become our truest selves, willing us to survive.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558969187
• ISBN13: 9781558969186
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Skinner House Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"