"'where does the story start' Saida Agostini asks in her stunning debut collection, let the dead in. It starts with a poet in full command of a language so lyrically luscious, each poem feels like a full meal. It starts with a poet courageous enough to plumb emotional depths and limn their fruit. It starts with queer love stories, myths, family histories, and poems that swing from Guyana to Baltimore. 'I prepared a daily feast of hallelujah to lay at your feet, ' Agostini writes, and each poem is a hallelujah, a salve, a prayer, and a benediction finely wrought from a ferocious poet who is just beginning to bless us. --Teri Ellen Cross Davis, author of a more perfect Union and Haint