by Emma Trelles on April 18, 2011
As part of the O, Miami Poetry Festival, I’m reading with poets extraordinaire Neil de la Flor and Maureen Seaton at Abe’s Penny Live, an exhibit - hosted by the Brooklyn-based publishing house – of photography, literature, postcards and mail-art, (…)
"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."