Southernmost: Sonnets, Leo Boix

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Southernmost: Sonnets
By Leo Boix — Paperback, November 18, 2025

A sweeping, luminous sonnet sequence that travels from the southernmost edges of Argentina to the uncertain terrain of memory, migration, and queer becoming. In Southernmost, acclaimed poet Leo Boix unearths histories—personal, political, ancestral—and transforms them into a startling, tender, and fiercely intelligent meditation on belonging.

Rooted in the landscapes of his childhood—‘the end of the world, the antipode’—Boix’s poems journey across continents and decades, tracing the echoes of colonization, the violence of dictatorship, and the fragile resilience of those who survived. Alongside this collective past unfolds a deeply intimate portrait of a boy discovering his sexuality in a world that cannot yet name it, a son watching his mother hide her illness, and a migrant learning how to translate one life into another.

Drawing on natural history, astronomy, myth, and queer desire, Boix’s sonnets shimmer with vivid imagery: jaguars in the brush, telescopes pointed across oceans, the strange sky that greets those who wake in a new country. Each poem becomes a world unto itself—precise, restless, and cinematic—while collectively forming a powerful net of interconnected stories.

Southernmost is a book about exile and return, about the truths buried beneath maps and memories, and about the courage it takes to look at the past without turning away. Haunting, expansive, and emotionally revelatory, it is a landmark collection for readers of Latin American literature, queer poetry, and anyone seeking language for the inheritance of loss and the possibility of home.

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