A Map of My Want

“A Map of My Want is an essential collection that burns with resilience, eroticism, and the pursuit of freedom on every page.”
—Ruben Quesada, author and editor of Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry

“Faylita Hicks's A Map of My Want is a poetic knowing of jail, sleeping cots, bills, and of riding feral pleasures beyond to the self's heat. Their poetry sings, and invites the reader to sing along—ecstatically.”
—Maud Lavin, author of Push Comes to Shove

“Each poem in A Map Of My Want is a special magic that inhabits the deepest parts of the psyche, digs in, and resists forgetting.”
—Airea D. Matthews, author of Bread and Circus

“A Map of My Want vividly paints a theology of self-love, one that transcends the shifting world around it and somehow anchors us, firm-footed, in the wanderlust of belonging.”
—Deborah Mouton, author of Black Chameleon

“Reading A Map of My Want—so muscular, impassioned, and wide-awake—it's not difficult to believe that bull’s-eye poetry is alchemy, that healing the un-nursed self is healing the world.” 
—Cyrus Cassells, author of Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?

“Too often we are fooled into thinking we are in control of our desires—Faylita Hicks is gracious in the correction of our folly, in reminding us that the body always draws the map, and we merely follow it.”
—Taylor Byas, author of I Done Clicked My Heels Three Times