First published 2024
This collection of fifty poems transports readers to a speculative future where Mexican folklore collides with advanced technology. Intelligent plants perform musical compositions while taco trucks descend from orbital stations to serve customers on distant planets. The legendary El Cucuy finds passage aboard spacecraft, adapting ancient fears to new frontiers. A lobster enhanced with neural implants ascends to the American presidency. Students face violence from miniaturization weapons in their classrooms. These visions emerge through verse that fuses science fiction concepts with magical realism and traditional Mexican storytelling. Iglesias crafts a poetic landscape where brown communities shape tomorrow's possibilities, imagining futures free from colonial constraints. The poems blend scientific speculation with cultural heritage, creating brief glimpses of alternate histories and potential tomorrows. Each piece offers both entertainment and reflection on current social and environmental challenges, transformed through a futuristic lens that asks what might be possible.
Genres: science-fiction, magical-realism, poetry, 21st-century, alternate-history
Vibes: lyrical, thought-provoking, whimsical
Tropes: found-family, social-commentary
Setting: Mexico, Moon
Period: Future
90 pages · Paperback · Space Cowboy Books