“The Desert is not Empty.” Guernica magazine reviews Alfredo Aguilar’s On This Side of the Desert
Jun 11th, 2021
Don’t miss Guernica magazine’s comprehensive review of Alfredo Aguilar’s On This Side of the Desert.
“A singular collection . . . at their core, Aguilar’s poems believe that holding people and their geographies in words offers them a sustaining and even transformational tenderness. Language may be as ‘common as sky,’ but it is also as mighty. The speaker calls the names he knows out into the desert and marigolds bloom, the dead rise, and our faces turn to the uninterrupted sky.”—Guernica
