The Boy Kingdom/El Reino de los Varones (Beacon Press) by Cuban-American Achy Obejas collects a sequence of prose poems, in both English and Spanish, meditating on childhood, parenthood, and the complexities of family. The “Boy Kingdom” of the title refers to the emotional world the author shares with her two sons — similar in many ways to any family dynamic, but also unique in Obejas’s particular exploration of motherhood as a bilingual Jewish Cuban-American lesbian. The territory of these pieces ranges from memories of her own childhood in Cuba and her relationship to her own parents to everyday domestic conflicts and comforts, and how these all refract through the prism of language.