Negras

Death is a political project, says the quote from Lupe Gómez who opens the pages of "Negras". In these penetrating verses one hears how black women are shot behind supermarkets and how they set fire to the tongue that revives the frost. The dark color of the victims will face the violence that capital exerts on them, poor, losers, smelly, miserable. They are all black. Black on offense; black on the skin; black in helplessness; black on the tongue; black in rage; black from the Ulla River to Ohio or Lake Erie. Perhaps the strength of his rebellion, like the enormous strength of the poetics of this book of poems by Daniel Asorey, lies in the silent legacy of the dark tongue of the shackles.