The Hormone of DarknessTilsa Otta (trans. Farid Matuk) In Tilsa Ottas The Hormone of Darkness, we find a queer, Latinx person who has lived through iterations of authoritarian rule, and who answers these conditions by creating poetry that doubles down on a life force that precedes and exceeds received notions of the poetic. Here poetry is bawdy, fabulist, and spiritualin short, it is alive. Otta has created a heaven where readers can go after they die. Drawing from four