"Inspiration: handy stuff, if you can find it. Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta secured theirs in the revolutionary struggles ofChicana feminists and Spains Post-Franco queer punk movement, so this collection doesnt play nice with fascistsand colonizers.Matt Sutherland, Foreword
"In their second book La Movida, they write, 'The dancing water / replaced my tongue with a knife.' These are the shifts I so often find myself drawn to in poetry. Crackling images, with language as a means to become something more empowered."Diana Arterian, Literary Hub
"These poems are witty, incredibly smart and playful, and hold incredible weight, stitched together through romantic love, delightful optimism, nightmares and scar tissue."rob mclennan
"Both raw & elegant, Tatiana Luboviski-Acostas La Movidaembraces the vulnerability of the individual who finds strength in collective struggle. Whether driven by 'desire, or / the agonizing pleasure / of self-torture,' here, they exist 'in complicated love.' Here, they know no 'better / way to deal with a broken / heart than a riot.' Here, 'virgo could be / [their] gender, or / it could be [their] sexuality.' Among marigolds, razors, crystal balls and natal charts, Luboviski-Acosta recovers the potency of the wail of La Llorona, a 'wail [that] will drown you, too.'Wendy Trevino
"At once soft and jarring, LA MOVIDAwalks a morbid path through fields of corporeal indulgence, introspection and repulsionsubmission and protest. Tatiana Luboviski-Acostas work voices keen self-observation, and a fiercely unique power to confront and envelope simultaneously, with compassion. One is crushed and sustained by the weight of these careful, assertive pieces."Liz Harris
"There is an easy voice here both guileless and full of guile, sometimes full of adult world-weariness sometimes as naive as a child, then looking at its own naievete and laughing, and showing us its wounds, a little proudly, a little insouciantly. La Movidais romantic, filled with love and longing and friendship and revolution. It is also Romantic in the old sense of the poetic tradition. Here is a poet who is willingeven desirousto be torn apart for a glimpse of Beauty."Julian Talamantez Brolaski
"Tatiana Luboviski-Acostas La Movida is an ecstatic shriek, a horror-feminist wail-song bellowing from a dark pit, where the ones covered in lucent blood vibrate with the eros of insurrection. Witchy, unapologetic, mythicthese incandescent poems avow, with a queer punk irreverence, the dismembering force of desire and the revolutionary potential of anti-colonial vengeance. Let yourself be cut by Luboviski-Acostas razor-sharp verse."Jackie Wang
