the past is a jean jacket

by Cloud Delfina Cardona

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

Published October 14, 2025

Reviews

[ok7a]

I could call Cloud my cousin on the tumblr side and wouldn’t be lying — and that’s why their poetics land in such a precise and punctual way. This is a beautiful collection that everyone who grew up on the computer needs to read. Shout out to tias. Shout to longing. Shout out to gender. Shout out to past selves.

[Katfrazier25]

relatable to the point of being painful, yet such a beautiful insight into a world i know nothing about. i think my favorite punch to the gut came early on in this book
“why does my sadness feel so ordinary?”
while everything feels loud and overwhelming these days, this book brought back a sense of the vulnerable silence that I associate earlier years with

[Ashley T]

I really liked this collection - pretty tender to an imperfect self, and relatable. I especially liked the Tia poem. It’s a great ode to all the strong and unique women in our lives and hopefully to our future selves!