How to Know You're Dreaming When You're Dreaming lesson one

<p>Angelica Maria Barraza Tran's debut collection <em>How to Know You're Dreaming When You're Dreaming Lesson One</em> articulates a practice of queer-of-color worldmaking in which the lyric strives to bridge the gaps and silences that separate past and present. In a language that is both speculative and grounded in the material these poems re-enchant the everyday revealing the sacred within the rituals of domestic life. They devote themselves like candles on an altar to life in all its manifestations: to the ancestors to lives too soon lost to the disappeared and to all those who are to come. In the tradition of Ana Mendieta these poems construct a rigorous textual body a body responsive to environment to violence and erasure and to collective intergenerational desires and longings. With this collection Barraza Tran claims her place within a rich lineage of experimental poetics and Latinx feminism.</p>