Syndrome Author|M. M. Helm hold you up in front

hold you up in front of a mirror

You have been preparing to read it all your life

In Which Language Do I Keep Silent

The Art of Healing from Sexual Trauma holds Ardea's soulful paintings

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Syndrome Author|M. M. Helm hold you up in frontSelected by former US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera for the 2022 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry, Syndrome scrutinizes the history, rhetoric, and naked power by which Puerto Rico became an "unincorporated territory" and its peoples pathologized subjects. That Puerto Rico is the world's oldest colony and Puerto Ricans the only nationality to have a psychological disorder named after them cannot, after all, be taken lightly. Conjuring an ensemble of