Diaries of a Terrorist [Paperback]

Sexy, outspoken, and explosive, the terrorist of Sotos debut collection resists police violence with linguistic verve and radical honesty.

This debut poetry collection demands the abolition of policing and human caging. InDiaries of a Terrorist,Christopher Soto uses the we pronoun to emphasize that police violence happens not only to individuals, but to whole communities. His poetics open the imagination towards possibilities of existence beyond the status quo. Soto asks, Who do we call terrorist, & why? These political surrealist poems shift between gut-wrenching vulnerability, laugh-aloud humor, and unapologetic queer punk raunchiness.Diaries of a Terroristis groundbreaking in its ability to speakfrom a local to a global scaleabout one of the most important issues of our time.USThe Terrorist Shaved His Beard

After Cecilia Vicu?a & Layli Longsoldier

The root ofterrorismisterror
Etymologically derived from
The Spanish wordtierra// Meaningland

Or maybe // The root ofterrorismiserror
Etymologically derived from
The Greek //Err// Meaningto be incorrect

Or maybe we err about the etymology
Maybe were wrong // To thinkterrorismmeans
One who exists incorrectly on this land

In Spanish the wordterrorismbecomesterrorismo
Terremotois a slant rhyme // & An earthquake
A shaking of the land

You change the suffix
The noun can become a verb //Terrorizing
For example // Police are terrorizing our people

Or the tense can be changed to the past //Terrorized
For example // On this land // Our people were
Terrorized by police // By ICE

Is it writers only // Who obsess over punctuation
The question mark // So cute in curiosity
Question // Who do we callterrorist& why


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