while they sleep (under the bed is another country)

Raquel captures the crisis in Puerto Rico post hurricane with such great urgency. Conceptually, and politically, this one of the best books to come out this year. The juxtaposition of the spanish text under the english text, not as a mirror or translation, is greatly compelling to me. Where the Engl......more

I've never read anything like this. Salas Rivera is changing the game- the use of footnotes as structure/form and setting up the narratives of bilingualism against translation are so talented and thoughtful. Grateful for their vision.......more

I was looking for a poetry audiobook to listen to while I cleaned and happened to har about this author. Without looking into it much, I played it -- and I wound up stopping what I was doing just to listen to it! (I almost always need to multitask in order to listen to audiobooks!). This was beautif......more

Raquel was attempting to make a point by doing her essays in English and Spanish. As though Puerto Rico wasn’t treated fairly during the hurricane. Ask any city, no city is ever the same again. 😔. The points she is losing is not having a translation version. Maybe the first half of the book hit home......more

Sad and very moving I don’t want to talk about it......more