And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing Milkweed Smithereens With a ferocity both musical

With a ferocity both musical and analytic

schrijvers en denkers in de loop der eeuwen hebben bedacht

H ter Balkt

history swells its banks

And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing Milkweed Smithereens With a ferocity both musicalTilsa Otta (trans. Honora Spicer) And Suddenly I Was Just Dancing collects poetry by Tilsa Otta (Lima, 1982) in a chapbook of gender defiant, carnal movement. The rhythm of perreo carries us into an anticolonial space of sensual and sexual liberation which pushes against binaries and towards multiplicity. Curating a collective of spiritual proportions, Ottas 'New Heaven' is boisterous and honest, zany and earnest, queer and color filled. 'Tilsa Otta