OUT NOW: Nico Vela Page's Americón! ⁠ @nicovelapage⁠ ⁠ Americón is a collection of poems in Spanglish that weaves a space for the queer, trans body to know the land, and itself, as extensions of each other. The land is the desert of Northern New Mexico, the forgotten Pan-American Highway, the space between our thighs, the quaking cordillera of Chile, the moans of elk, and the ripe fruit waiting to be picked. Through archive, attention, and erotic ecopoetics, Page’s debut collection of poems extends far across the page, the gender binary, language, and the Americas to find out who we are by asking where we are.⁠ ⁠ "What an extraordinary collection! In Americón we are not between worlds or across worlds, we already, in our becoming, belong to a realm that warms us like a packed train, where signifiers are not part of a homogenous whole, nor particularly othered. Here Nico Vela Page finds languages for a world unlike any I have belonged to or read, an insistently familiar wording/thriving that repeats over and over, I know I've met you somewhere. Aquí están “nuestros cuerpos empapados/ our soggy/bodies” and they show us “a way to disappear/in.” I read it with a hunger I hadn't felt in a long time and it left me suggestible and open."⁠ —Raquel Salas Rivera @raquelsalasrivera⁠ ⁠ Image descriptions in comments. ⁠