by Emma Trelles on May 4, 2011
May 7th, Saturday at 8 p.m. at 18 Rabbit Gallery in Fort Lauderdale: Poets and writers don glow sticks, Christmas lights, fishnets, and anything else that will illuminate their better natures. I’m reading with such talents as Brian Spears, Amy (…)
"Tropicalia is a collection of poems by Emma Trelles, and winner of the Andrés Montoya Poetry Prize. The book is a melodic union between the green insistence of the subtropics and the city ensconced within. Trelles’s language is detailed and startling, her poems infused with color and light, and the secret beauty of back alleys and parking lots is seamed to sorrow, hope, and land. Rock bands play among odes to Lorca and Chagall, and the hard news of protest and war lives among the simple pleasures of words and sky."