Tripas: Poems

Som’s poems feel like acts of inquiry—into family, history, language, and the body as archive. The collection is attentive to what gets inherited: stories, silences, and the subtle physics of belonging. Som’s imagery is vivid and precise, often surprising in the way it leaps between registers. The voice moves between intimacy and analysis, making thought feel muscular rather than abstract. Many poems explore translation broadly—how experience crosses borders of culture and time. There’s a strong sense of craft: rhythms that tighten, lines that turn sharply, images that return with new meaning. The collection rewards slow reading, inviting you to sit with ambiguity and echo. Emotional moments are earned rather than announced. The result is a book that feels both personal and intellectually alive. You finish with a heightened sense of how language holds what we cannot. A powerful collection of attention and pressure.