The title of Bi-rey-nato (Vice-royal-ties), Julia Wong Kcomt's sixth
poetry collection, is a homonym for "virreinato" or "viceroyalty," but
can also be broken down into its component words: "bi" (bi/two), "rey"
(king), and "nato" (born). Likewise, the poems in this chapbook play
with binaries: in power, love, language, country, identity. The salt in
the air of seaside Lima, the setting of the first section, condenses
into the salt that trails through the second section, set mostly in
Argentina.
This is #15 in UDP's Señal series for contemporary Latin American
poetry.