Flanked by catastrophic headlines and somehow worse breakups, MERCURY IN REGGAETÓN indulges in sobs and perreo before facing impending doom and apocalypse. A marriage between hip-hop and the line break, between the ghazal and  dembow, Palomo recounts love in a time of dystopia and resistance in a time of heartbreak. Published in a bilingual edition; translated by Josué Andrés Moz.

“This poet makes of its speaker a revolution with poems like: Desktop Graffiti, Pa’ Mis Brujas and For Those Who Have Sexuality With The Wind, The Flowers, The Garden! It coaxes the spells of Haryette Mullen, Ada Límon and Walter Mercado, becoming profoundly punk and counterculture while invoking its own sense of pop. It forces us to listen to the dying patriarchy in our songs—how the music is transformed through our body into something new and achingly beautiful.”  —Yesenia Montilla, author of Muse Found in a Colonized Body

“I don’t want to leave this book. It’s dark and luminous, like the obsidian mirror that Tezcatlipoca carries in his chest, like a revived and desperate deity. Journeying through this book is, in a certain way, to piece together a broken mirror. MERCURY IN REGGAETÓN is urgent writing for the times we live in: “We were not born / to be loved but to warn all our fathers: we are the end of your era.” —Elena Salamanca, author of Peces en la boca