Tomas Q. Morin Books in Order

These poems move between imagined histories, wartime Eastern Europe, and the contemporary American Southwest. Through elegies and fantastical narratives, Tomás Q. Morín explores human experience with dark humor, transforming familiar voices and landscapes into unsettling stories.

Tomás Q. Morín's poems explore the ending of love alongside the appetites and transformations of the natural world. Fantastical images meet ordinary experience as language, humor, grief, and desire connect emotional loss with moments of unexpected joy.

This poetry collection brings lyric invention and close attention to everyday experience to the pressures of a harsh century. Tomás Q. Morín uses language as a means of endurance, questioning how people preserve feeling and humanity amid persistent threats.

Tomás Q. Morín recalls growing up in South Texas amid poverty, addiction, and family violence. His memoir traces how compulsions first helped him endure uncertainty, then became a prison of their own, complicating his love for his family.

Writing letters to his son, Tomás Q. Morín reflects on racism, fatherhood, and belonging in America. Drawing on personal encounters and literary influences, he considers how his child might confront prejudice while protecting his dignity, imagination, and sense of self.

Confined in a mirrored box for a class training emotional support humans, a cat remembers her beloved owner and their shared comforts. As trainees debate her existence, her memories reveal a violent, intolerant society and a longing for freedom and connection.

In four sections shaped by John Coltrane's recording of My Favorite Things, these poems celebrate love, music, and everyday delight. Playful images and intimate reflections explore how language allows people to share their hidden selves despite time and heartbreak.