Red Lip Peril

Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas Samohod (trans. Judah Rubin)

Red Lip Peril brings Peruvian poet Dalmacia Ruiz-Rosas’s searing, corporeal, political poems of the 1970s and 1980s into English for the first time. Harnessing and writing back against state violence, against amnesia, against complacency, and into desire, these poems speak a Lima on the brink, caught in the landslide of history, where the poet is “still shut up remembering ’77 / when for screaming my dreams aloud they beat me”.