Mopes

MOPES is a book of POEMS which bring lightness and cheer–if not levity
and joy–to various experiences of disorientation, which are played out
in the field of the page plying the tools of the trade.

Kenneth Reveiz is an acerbic, deft commentator on queer eros, joy, and
disappointment, and is at the same time a honey-pot, bringing hot
feelings. These precisely shaped and distributed poems confront traps of
dominant culture and paradigms, including whiteness and white art,
deftly dismantling by their very presence. A frontal collection with
concerns ranging from desire to aesthetics to the absolute exigency of
lived social equality across race and culture, MOPES is sure to make you
cry and laugh.

These somewhat aggressive experimental poems
by a young Latinx queer poet take on whiteness,
white supremacy, queerness, queer love and erotic feeling, and embody a
somewhat emo somewhat millennial emotional terrain of extreme
efficiency and achievement at the nadir of personal power– the weakest
and queerest empiricisms.