Tomás Q. Morín

Biography

Tomás Q. Morín is the author of the poetry collection Machete (Knopf, 2021) and the memoir Let Me Count the Ways (forthcoming, Nebraska, 2022). He translated Pablo Neruda’s The Heights of Macchu Picchu (Copper Canyon, 2014), and with Mari L’Esperance he coedited Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine (Prairie Light, 2013). He teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Rice University. 

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POETRY / Summer 2021

Sartana and Machete in Outer Space

By Tomás Q. Morín

for Jessica Alba & Danny Trejo

There has been so much death. So much killing. 
From space, the wall along the Rio Grande 
isn’t even a shadow of a shadow.