Spilling the Light

Julin Jamaica Soto

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Skinner House Books
07 August 2024

Poetry; Gender studies: transsexuals & hermaphroditism; Complementary therapies, healing & health

"The light must spill to shine. The thing you must be is yourself.

Intimate and uncompromising, Rev. Julin Jamaica, Soto's debut collection Spilling the Light, is a luminous offering to their communities and a defiant declaration of their worth in a world hostile to their queer, disabled, and brown being.

""America, is this freedom?"" they ask. ""I cannot prove to you that / I am a person,"" writing boldly of identity, community, liberation, and erasure through a prism of tender moments and powerful reckonings. These are poems of broken hallelujahs and codes/witching, of hunger and fire, of hope and resilience. They are complex, tender, and empowering. They embolden us to become our truest selves, willing us to survive."

By: Julin Jamaica Soto
Imprint: Skinner House Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 139mm,
ISBN: 9781558969186
ISBN 10: 1558969187
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 07 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Rev. Julin Jamaica Soto (formerly Theresa) is a Unitarian Universalist minister and activist. They have worked in parish ministry, interim ministry, and hospital chaplaincy with veterans. Soto lives in the Pacific Northwest and seeks to serve the mission and values of Unitarian Universalism, along with the healing of the world.