My list of the best Latinx poetry published this year includes After Ruben (Red Hen Press), a stunning collection of poems by Francisco Aragon, inspired by another of Latin America’s greatest poets and thinkers, Ruben Dari; Postcolonial Love Poem (Graywolf Press) by Natalie Diaz, a remarkable exploration of Mojave culture, oppression and bodies of water, as well as queer desire, ancestry and family history, and Guillotine (Graywolf Press) by Eduardo C Corral, a poetry collection that brings in personal experiences about queer desire and Latin American machismo, among other important themes…
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