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autoexilio

Autoexilio

Miguel Coronado

Paper: ISBN 979-8-9913377-7-9 $19.95

101 Pages

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In Autoexilio, Dominican-born author Miguel Coronado goes straight to the heart of what it means to survive the New World when you’ve barely survived the old one. He masterfully translates the brutal footprint of colonization into luscious, lyrical poetry.

Coronado’s genius lies in his expert weaving of modern art and politics, capturing the diaspora experience with equal parts unflinching truth and haunting tenderness.

Praise:

“It’s hard to believe this is a debut; it is assured, philosophical, self-critical, and wise beyond its years. Family history and political history and art history overlap with daily life in these poems in a way that’s pleasantly destabilizing. You never know where the next reference will come from-a book? the barrio? Rarely is such erudition applied so tenderly to the mundane and the personal.”
-Matthew Rohrer, Army of Giants

“Love, belonging and their complexities permeate Autoexilio, whether it be between the speaker’s parents, siblings, countries, memories or denizens of the Beloved Community traversed throughout the book.”
-Jordan E. Franklin, make it to the end (of the movie )

“Coronado is an heir to Lorca, Ginsberg, and a historian in the style of the 1619 Project. He makes it new by giving us buried histories of Hispaniola, of migration to New York.”
-Indran Amirthanayagam, Migrant States