The Forest of las américas is Already Alive: On Christina Olivares’ Future Botanic

The Forest of las américas is Already Alive: On Christina Olivares’ Future Botanic

Christina Olivares wants us to dream together. Her second poetry collection, Future Botanic, is a city garden ready for the next step. To become a forest in their own terms, through their own conjurings, with “botanical livewire.” (18) In that space, the foundational memory is not of America (i.e. United States), but las américas. Not the politically divided continent, but the immeasurable geography of vibrant possibility. The journey might be l…