Translated by Lucina Schell. "'Something remains to be said about childhood / beyond what we've said / and keep on saying.' Here is where Daiana Henderson's poems, rendered beautifully in Lucina Schell's translation, have come to bear: in the space between nostalgia and brusqueness, between lyric abandon and banal grit. As I read through this collection, which draws me in for its fresh, arresting take on anecdote, I find myself lulled and jolted by details that contain many dimensions of time, a speaker firmly rooted in the present who also already knows 'everything they're going to say.' In this, the collection is fiercely timeless and also very contemporary--both interested in poetry's elegiac qualities, and also skeptical of its ability to address, commemorate, or mark experience, to make it newly, freshly visible. SO THAT SOMETHING REMAINS LIT stirred me in these contradictions. Daiana is definitely a poet to read; I'm excited to see more from her."--Alexis Almeida

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Women's Studies.