A culturally rich poetic history of generations. [Fernando Pérez] applies the meaning of lenguaje and vivid imagery to his poems that retell his family's memories of their immigrant experience.--Superstition Review

Fernando Pérez shows how we are sums of a past that both tethers and strangles us, that enriches as much as it drains. . . . Pérez's poems are ballads that resurrect the violent passions and hungers that we need to feel whole. A Song of Dismantling is as beautiful as it is gut-wrenching.--Maceo Montoya, author of The Deportation of Wopper Barraza: A Novel

Fernando Pérez shows how we are sums of a past that both tethers and strangles us, that enriches as much as it drains. . . . Pérez's poems are ballads that resurrect the violent passions and hungers that we need to feel whole. A Song of Dismantling is as beautiful as it is gut-wrenching.--Maceo Montoya, author of The Deportation of Wopper Barraza: A Novel

These poems move fluidly through transnational spaces; Pérez carefully breaks apart--syllable by syllable--the stories we've been told and sutures them back together again, different. Images turn and turn again with freshness.--Jane Wong, author of Overpour

The fragile opulence of Fernando Pérez's first collection lyrically glides, processing absence . . . to transport the reader deep into the languageless horizons of exilic consciousness.--J. Michael Martinez, author of Heredities: Poems