DescriptionHere, We Become Islands is the debut collection from a poet in motion at the borderlands of hip-hop and Puerto Rican culture, family history known and discovered, masculinity and beauty. These poems of blood-letting honesty shift narrative into lyric, elegy into celebration, and prayer into action. Full of rhythm and discovery these poems remap the line break and pivot into ecstasy, consecrate the unsaid, find roots in a shifting geography and the other. Here is a dancing at the crossroads between life and death. In Here, We Become Islands the poet is a spirit-bridge between his ancestors and a nomadic life inspired music.