poetry

monica de la torre

Poet, translator, and scholar, Mónica de la Torre was born and raised in Mexico City. With dark humor, de la Torre's poems explore our constructions of identity and trajectory...

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de la Torre offers up a fine-tuned sense of ridiculous, a world of tom fool capers with a hint of the macabre

- mary jo bang

featured poems

No Mode of Excitement is Absolutely Colorless
Describe what color is not. / It’s missing a thingness. / To the point of becoming, color camouflages supporting structures.

Migrating Birds

Victor gets a real sense of power / from making his own raisins. He buys / pounds and pounds of grapes

I. / You thought this would be / a dance lesson, / things were easier then. / No marimbas, no clarinets;

Demolition Derby

Sonya’s so good that all the guys / pick on her, so the evening’s narrative goes. I’ve heard she wears

Driven by a Strange Desire

I. Before Breakfast / When the sun turns gray and I become tired / of looking at your many-colored shoes

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