Tertulia

Summary

Vincent Toro’s new collection takes the Latin American idea of an artistic social gathering (the tertulia) and revisesit for the Latinx context in the United States. In verses dense with juxtaposition, these poems examine immigration,economics, colonialism, and race via the sublime imagery of music, visual art, and history. Toro draws from his ownsocial justice work in various U.S. cities to create a kaleidoscopic vision of the connections between the personaland the political, the local and the global, in a book that both celebrates and questions the complexities of thehuman condition.