In listening to Black queer life in Berlin
Her work has been published most recently in Overland
while insisting on its contemporary relevance
'Song for Billie Holiday'
It is Garza Islas’s first book
The Book of All Loves Verity Spott In listening to Black queerAugustn Fernndez Mallo In the wake of the Great Blackout, faced with the near extinction of humanity, a pair of lovers speak to each other. They parse, with precision, with familiarity, the endless aspects of their love. Out of their dialogues, piece by piece, a composite image of love takes form, one that moves outwards beyond the realm of relationships and into metaphysics, geology, linguistics, AI. Years previously, a writer and her husband, a