Red Like Earth - Paperback

by Solange Aguilar (Author)

Red Like Earth is a collection of poems that centers around the color red and the three main emotions Aguilar associates with it: love, anger, and their Indigenous identity. Red is passion. Red is history. Red is the color of homelands and skin. Red Like Earth is a raw and real look at poetry through a lens of reclamation of the heart, the body, and the land. Solange Aguilar moves us through a collection of poems that seek to paint the complexity of identity, culture and land politics, and love in the colors, tastes, and memories of being a body in a tender yet breaking world.

Author Biography

Solange Aguilar (They/Ze) is a queer Mescalero Apache, Yo'eme, and Filipinx (Kalinga/Kapampangan) multimedia artist, poet, and zinemaker. They are a 2025 Jack McCarthy Book Prize winner with Write Bloody Publishing, a co-winner of the Corazó n de Oro from Raí ces for their work on the Mispu Story Signs at Santa Barbara City College, and a first place winner in the Santa Barbara Poetry Slam. They are also a recipient of The Pachamama Skillshare and Women's Creative Collective for Change artist scholarship and a 2021 fellow from the Artist2Artist program by the Art Matters Foundation.