The Bounce

Author: Karl Michael Iglesias

Publisher: Finishing Line Press (2024)

The Bounce is so alive with memory, play, hope, and love as Karl Michael Iglesias pulls wonder from scenes of childhood and domestic life. I love these poems; they make me want to call my cousins, write letters to past and future loves. These poems shimmer with truth (Maybe true love is just who you’ve decided to forgive/for the rest of your life) and secrets (I know/where the hole in the hallway/comes from) and in the end add up to something utterly real, pulsing, and so very well-written. This document of relationships becomes, in the poet’s hands, a testimony of the mountains and valleys of love’s opulent and familiar terrain. 

—Danez Smith