Valencia Robin

Brimming with music, bursting with flora, the poems in Valencia Robin's second collection are both a walking tour of local neighbourhoods and a journey into space and across time—ways of looking and listening to the past in order to find our best way forward. Engaging with an array of artistic heroes—James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Eavan Boland, Gwendolyn Brooks, Etheridge Knight,...

In Ridiculous Light, Valencia Robin captures the everyday and the ecstatic in a voice all her own. Through poems that live at the intersection of history and experience, she captures the joys and tumult of being alive. She is a storyteller of the first order, a documenter not just of memories but of how we remember.