Making Water

Laura Jaramillo

'Laura Jaramillo’s Making Water unpacks a lovely liquid landscape shot through with the promise of violence. How can you know anything in a world of permeable boundaries, where even time moves like water, or is it blood? How can you know anything where “we are dislocations / incidentally cut / with experience?” Where you become aware of something only as it & you become something else that disappears? In Making Water, Jaramillo shows all this becoming demands an ethics. For instance, you have to be against border enforcement. The going is hard, but when it’s also beautiful, “[l]ight scatters through the canopy as a disco ball throws light.”'— Wendy Trevino

Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso.