To Love an Island (YesYes Books), the debut book of poems by US-born, Puerto Rico–raised Ana Portnoy Brimmer, “offers the stark recognition that disaster is political and colonialism the most violent of storms.” Ranging over recent historical events from Hurricane Maria to widespread political protests in Puerto Rico in 2019, the poems explore grief and mourning, resilience and resistance, solidarity and love, anger and defiance, and “all the complexities of loving a place under imperial duress.”