Publisher's Synopsis
"How to Know You're Dreaming When You're Dreaming, Lesson One, is a collection of poems and creative nonfiction pieces that reflect the author's fraught relationship with latinidad, specifically as this identity intersects with queer desire and family building. These poems are the creative counterpart to a doctoral dissertation titled After Cha: Charting a Lineage of Experimental Women of Color Poetry which explores critically and creatively how the body generates knowledges that counter Western rationality"--.