On This Side of the Desert
Selected by Natalie Diaz for the 2019 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize (Kent State University Press 2020)
“To make a border of any land is to attempt to alter our bodies and our tongues, to sever us from our roots so that we don’t bloom into our futures. Aguilar’s poems challenge our spatial ideas of what the borderlands are, as well as the way time works or does not work under the imposed conditions of a border. The Borderland in these poems is reshuffled and remapped, as a place of haunting and responsibility, yet also a place of desire and fruiting.” - Natalie Diaz, from the foreword.