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makeshift altar

“A rare, fully realized first book that boldly summons and carefully distills the boundless possibilities of poetry, daring us to live, mourn, and play at the limits of everyday language. The music of Alvarez's muse is something to behold, whether scoring the aerodynamics of jazz or finding counterrhythms in the sonnet's pentameter. This is an unforgettable debut, a song of afterlives in the here and now, a libation for all those ‘forced to dance in scarcity.’”

~Urayoán Noel, author ofTransversal

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Essential voices

“The work is emotionally moving. The attention to the quotidian, lived experiences of those affected offers unique insights into a global catastrophe that has turned precious lives and deaths into statistics. . . . An important cultural response.”

~Darius Bost, author of Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence