Triste la furia / Sadness, the Fury. Puerto Rico: Editorial Pulpo, 2025
“Sadness, the Fury is a book of voices that hark back to the recent past while pulling readers towards very distant futures. It’s a gift of poems: poems to confront the world tearfully, joyfully, while suppressing neither the world nor the sadness that crosses this world. A kind of fuel seeps through the language of these poems: fuel for insurgencies, for the fires that break out every time we see the world through the filter of furious sadness. With each verse, with each stanza, we get a chance to create new worlds, to be those worlds by opening and combining ourselves with others. Across its sections, a chorus of voices emerges, a choral call to face the disaster that has lurked above us for centuries.-Sergio Delgado
Luis Othoniel Rosa ha escrito un canto amargo al futuro que se esfuma; un grito desesperado pero sincero al paisaje arrasado que se resiste a morir en los lugares donde nos significa; ha escrito, también, una loa a la amistad llena de ternura. La tristeza de este libro conmueve. -Azahara Palomeque
In Sadness, the Fury, Luis Othoniel Rosa ‘stays with the trouble’, in the words of Donna Haraway, making us present to both human and planetary precarity. Through black humor and a sensitive, mutable lyric voice, he plays with time, slowing and stretching it to reveal present and future moments in the sometimes joyful, sometimes heartbreaking business of coexisting on our planet with other beings both living and unliving. – Emily A. Maguire
Recent reviews in English and Spanish
- Essay by Mara Pastor. “Furia sin dioses, libros sin mundo: sobre ‘Triste la Furia; Sadness, the Fury’ de Luis Othoniel Rosa” in Rialta Magazine. June 24, 2025.
- Essay by Melanie Pérez Ortiz bilingual review of Sadness, the Fury / Triste la furia for Latino Book Review. May 18, 2025.
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