Excerpts from Craig Santos Perez, “Sonnet at the Edge of the Reef,” from Habitat Threshold (Omnidawn Publishing, 2020) published by permission of the poet. Portions of chapter 4 were previously published in a different form in “Submerging Inscription,” in “Inscriptive Studies,” ed. Paul Benzon and Rita Raley, special issue, ASAP Journal 7, no. 2 (May 2022); copyright 2022 Johns Hopkins University Press.

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