Rodney Gomez’s Arsenal With Praise Songsomehow manages to yoke together lament and celebration, reproach and veneration across the borders of eras and nations. Set in the stark desert landscape of the Mexico-U.S. border all too familiar to so many refugees and migrants, these poems scrutinize human bodies and the body of the earth as the sites of great injustices and violences–political, social, and spiritual–and as the vehicles that carry our collective legacy generation to generation.