vanishing point.

"An unflinching collection of poems from a bold literary voice." * Kirkus *
"This intelligent exploration intertwines intimacy and testimony. Drawing on visual works from the public domain and embedding QR codes linking to Reyes’s film poems, hybridity is at the core of this collection." * Harriet Books *
"It’s easy enough to experiment for experiment’s sake, but in vanishing point. (the period at the end of the title is very much intentional) Reyes’s assays beyond traditional poetry-making are clearly in service of a larger goal, the re-creation and repudiation of history’s injustices. vanishing point. includes color FBI sketches and black and white etchings, and three times in the book, you turn the page to find a QR code that takes you to a video poem on YouTube. Reyes also makes extensive use of dark and light gray to emphasize irony and erasure, so that readers must strain their eyes to recover text that has been or is being expunged from the historical record. Additionally, her many residences and fellowships, including a Fulbright in Ireland, enrich the book’s already bountiful content." * California Review of Books, on "31 Outstanding Poetry Books from 2023" *
"Spanning New York, Puerto Rico, Ireland, and beyond, Black Nuyorican poet Reyes brings together census records, FBI sketches, and QR codes to the author’s poetry films into a meditation on the limits of visibility." * The Latinx Project *
"Vanishing point. is an assured experiment in disorientation­­. It’s not a matter of getting lost, exactly, but about losing your bearings, straying from a linear route between two points into something more shadowy, even unmappable. The collection is an exercise in trying to locate oneself, as an individual, in relation to a history of violence that connects multiple points on the globe. . . . The poems don’t plot a clear route through the shared histories, but they do map specific points of contact between them, felt in the body, in the present." * The Stinging Fly *
"[vanishing point] was composed, as [Reyes'] author biography offers, 'while splitting her time between San Francisco, Ireland, and her hometown of New York City,' feeling out an articulation of layerings of a cultural sense of between-ness, including her connection to multiple points but not feeling entirely at home in any one. Her writing is staccato, precise . . . Reyes works to write her way back into view, or to write enough to be seen, before she completely disappears." * Rob McLennan *
“Reyes insists that we remember the histories and identities erased by the work of empire and patriarchy. Traversing continents, oceans, and historical eras, Reyes utilizes archive, video poems, séance, and an unrelenting lens that refuses ‘a cozy invisibility.’ This collection affirms the need to preserve histories on the precipice of being consumed and forgotten. Through the visual use of gradient text, Reyes amplifies and conjures what is at risk of being sent into the silence of white noise. Be it in California, Ireland, Puerto Rico, or popular culture, Reyes calls our attention to the ‘ivory-stroked / false purity—’ and the ‘misappropriation