Red Like Earth

Red is passion. Red is history. Red is the color of homelands and skin. Solange Aguilar's Red Like Earth centers the three main tenets of Aguilar's gut feelings: love, anger, and their Indigenous identity.

Moving through poems that paint the complexity of identity, culture and land politics, each reader rediscovers their connection to the ground beneath their feet. Love is renewed in colors, tastes, and memories. So join Aguilar on their journey of reclamation and find your own meaning of red.

"Red Like Earth trembles with visceral urgency and desire. Solange Aguilar's poems feel electric, exploring relationship terrain like a wrenched open, healing heart. There is a necessary Indigenous poetic here, full of Land Back ethos and ancestral passions made new. 'I hope I/pass down/ a legacy of /softness,' Aguilar writes. This is a rising, powerful voice."
- Lee Herrick, California Poet Laureate and author of This Many Miles from Desire, Gardening Secrets of the Dead, Scar and Flower, and In Praise of Late Wonder