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Latin Post, "Must Read Books by Latin Authors in 2020"

"The circles, the titular 'thresholes, ' mark the thresholds between fragments. . . . In Montes's work, these labels seem to say, don't skip the white space-the gaps between language are part of the language. . . . It's a trick that never stops feeling like magic, the intimacy of nothing but black marks on white paper." --Elisa Gabbert, New York Times

"I felt as though I was being beckoned into the book's orbit. . . . [THRESHOLES], which is classified as poetry, parses grief through the language of holes--'a not knowing, ' 'a surge in reverse, ' 'the white noise of the shore, ' 'somebody (an abstraction) sitting next to your ghost.' I can't wait to read it again." --Aisha Sabatini Sloan, The Paris Review

"[A] drifting, yet driven, meditation on grief and healing. . . . Fragmented and emergent, THRESHOLES draws together an expansive range of topics on death, the body, trauma, knowledge, healing, oppression, language, and art. Yet the book feels cohesive, bound together in Montes's percipient vision. . . . THRESHOLES fearlessly explores what it means to come close to formlessness." --Rachel Carroll, Los Angeles Review of Books

"With its aphoristic lines and longer paragraphs, [Montes] is constructing a sort of anti-monument: to events in her own life that resist description; to the past and present of the Bronx; to contemporary artists and writers and friendships; in the spirit of the artist Gordon Matta-Clark; against death but not without deep engagement with loss." --Lucy Ives, BOMB Magazine

"A cascade of distinct, one-line stanzas that navigate the present moment, the fallibility of narrative, the violence of living, and the mystery of the body and the Other. . . .The book evoked much else in me, such as delight over the concision and clarity, wonder over the intangible concepts [Montes] makes felt, fascination at the references and artworks detailed in her research, and constant surprise at the turns the lines take." --Tyler Barton, TriQuarterly

"Alongside [Montes], we tunnel through a series of hollow points, pressure positions, aesthetic snapshots. . . . A taxonomy of holes, but also of their edges, where they end and meet" --Trisha Low, The Believer

"Testifies to the fierce, brave determination of one Latinx writer to write through struggle. . . .Montes graces us with a unique ability to foresee how time may empower artistic utterances through the breakage." --Kara Laurene Pernicano, Full Stop

"Presented clearly and in a seemingly improvisational and unrestrained manner, Montes acknowledges that her journey is simultaneously created and 'undone by [her] own animal hand.' Her commitment to its forward movement results in a book-length epic about trauma and loss." --Ruben Quesada, Harvard Review

"A book we need during this time. Revealing Montes"