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Spit It Out
Spit It Out is a poetry series that touches on themes of growth, chaos, and catharsis. This work has a bit of everything for a reader, fiction and nonfiction pieces, from happy love poems to horror and monotony to grandeur and everything in between. Written by the poet Lourdes Leiner from Arizona, she uses this piece to serve as a time capsule. Imagine this piece to be a map of the lives touched in Arizona and a framework for the writer's career growth. This is her second poetry series to be published with much more to come in the future, this is her largest work yet consisting of 200 poems.
203 pages, Paperback
Published August 10, 2023
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February 9, 2024
I think this might be the epitome of Southwest poetry, and before you stop me, trust me, I've read a lot of Southwest poetry. Lourdes Leiner doesn't pander, doesn't romanticize or condescend, doesn't paint the desert like something it isn't. These are some of the first poems about living in the desert and being a woman where I felt like the author actually lived here and actually knew what it's all like.
It's rare that a find a poet that really speaks to my soul, but while reading, I couldn't tell if the author somehow knew me or was writing about me, and at the same time I felt like I knew her, like I was walking through these poems with her. I found myself in these pages and I think Lourdes Leiner perfectly captured womanhood, grief, and growing in the desert in Spit It Out.
I truly could not put this down. I read it in one sitting, highlighted and wrote a lot in the margins, and then added it to my "favorites only" bookshelf. Lourdes Leiner has instantly become one of my all-time favorite poets.
I could say so much more about this collection, but truly, you just have to read it.
It's rare that a find a poet that really speaks to my soul, but while reading, I couldn't tell if the author somehow knew me or was writing about me, and at the same time I felt like I knew her, like I was walking through these poems with her. I found myself in these pages and I think Lourdes Leiner perfectly captured womanhood, grief, and growing in the desert in Spit It Out.
I truly could not put this down. I read it in one sitting, highlighted and wrote a lot in the margins, and then added it to my "favorites only" bookshelf. Lourdes Leiner has instantly become one of my all-time favorite poets.
I could say so much more about this collection, but truly, you just have to read it.
February 3, 2026
While reading this it’ll fuel you with motivation to chase your dreams. It’s exciting and emotional and is a book I will pick up again and again to help get me through the day sometimes.
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