Future Botanic
New condition, paperback
In Future Botanic, Christina Olivares continues her interrogation of inheritance, history, legacy, queer love, and what is owed. From the Bronx to Cuba, the poetic voice and the poetic soul's eye is relentlessly, and yet tenderly, vigilant in seeing the world. Olivares' poems are lyrical meditations- in some cases, spells- that embody, vivify and reckon with the geography of the Americas and the centuries-long postcolonial condition.
Christina Olivares is a sonic soothsayer on the page, yes! Olivares loves lush language & liminal space & has returned to the page with a curious ferocity for softness among the rubble. In Future Botanic, Olivares studies the archives of lineage, community, & her own body. Each poem an altar offering, each line-break an ancestor’s relinquishing. This collection is a spectrum of girl bliss & gender, concrete gardens & blood conjure, and is a spiritually (re)evolutionary promise. The “botanical no-américa, inverse” survives and revives us all.
—Mahogany L. Browne, author of I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love& Vinyl Moon
New condition, paperback
In Future Botanic, Christina Olivares continues her interrogation of inheritance, history, legacy, queer love, and what is owed. From the Bronx to Cuba, the poetic voice and the poetic soul's eye is relentlessly, and yet tenderly, vigilant in seeing the world. Olivares' poems are lyrical meditations- in some cases, spells- that embody, vivify and reckon with the geography of the Americas and the centuries-long postcolonial condition.
Christina Olivares is a sonic soothsayer on the page, yes! Olivares loves lush language & liminal space & has returned to the page with a curious ferocity for softness among the rubble. In Future Botanic, Olivares studies the archives of lineage, community, & her own body. Each poem an altar offering, each line-break an ancestor’s relinquishing. This collection is a spectrum of girl bliss & gender, concrete gardens & blood conjure, and is a spiritually (re)evolutionary promise. The “botanical no-américa, inverse” survives and revives us all.
—Mahogany L. Browne, author of I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love& Vinyl Moon
New condition, paperback
In Future Botanic, Christina Olivares continues her interrogation of inheritance, history, legacy, queer love, and what is owed. From the Bronx to Cuba, the poetic voice and the poetic soul's eye is relentlessly, and yet tenderly, vigilant in seeing the world. Olivares' poems are lyrical meditations- in some cases, spells- that embody, vivify and reckon with the geography of the Americas and the centuries-long postcolonial condition.
Christina Olivares is a sonic soothsayer on the page, yes! Olivares loves lush language & liminal space & has returned to the page with a curious ferocity for softness among the rubble. In Future Botanic, Olivares studies the archives of lineage, community, & her own body. Each poem an altar offering, each line-break an ancestor’s relinquishing. This collection is a spectrum of girl bliss & gender, concrete gardens & blood conjure, and is a spiritually (re)evolutionary promise. The “botanical no-américa, inverse” survives and revives us all.
—Mahogany L. Browne, author of I Remember Death by Its Proximity to What I Love& Vinyl Moon
