Soul on Fire is a poet with purpose who paves the way for the broken to ignite their voices as one unstoppable force for change.

Society silos us with algorithmic distractions implanting impossible desires for perfection. This country seduces us into believing that the only way to survive is to pick ourselves up from our bootstraps and stay quiet in our suffering.

Every line of poetry from Anatomy of a Flame erupts with the quaking heat of a courageous tongue not afraid to haunt societal “norms”. These pages are the battle scars of a warrior’s heart speaking up and speaking out to reveal the darkness and the light that truly makes us who we are.

Soul on Fire’s poetry is the spark needed to transform the complacency of our minds, release the toxicities of befores as smoke to the stars, and burn down what no longer serves humanity.

Anatomy of a Flame is a potent declaration to set the status quo ablaze with fearless truth and unapologetic ink.

Anatomy of a Flame feels like the layin’ on of hands needed on the other side of testifyin.’

These poems are bread and cup, offerings to honor ancestral sacrifices, the scars the bruises, and triumph of lived experiences.

Soul on Fire may not know our struggle, but this complex collection is a prayer for ease and grace and we are grateful for the blessing.”

Anatomy of a Flame teaches us to not be afraid to unravel the deep roots of family and ancestry to find meaning in the present.

Soul On Fire embraces masculine vulnerability that is tender and refreshing.

His journey twists our emotions with the candid recount of his lineage and captivates us with how he strives to heal even if it takes revisiting the darkest of places to find the light.

Each of Soul on Fire’s poems in Anatomy of a Fire masterfully measures out heat, knowing that embers, placed correctly, are cool enough to walk on, especially in the familiar places like family and childhood, but he blazes across the globe while always at the intersection between Colombia and America, singeing if not outright burning larger structures like masculinity and race while tending mental health as it smolders, smoky and hot.

He knows how to turn the coals at the right moment. In here, the flame glows around the places Soul on Fire heals and rages in the spaces that need to be burned away.

His healing is ours. His flares are ours, too.

Soul on Fire is a poet of destiny.

His pen captures the beauty of Colombia, the grit of Jersey and vice versa. His voice is both unapologetic and thought provoking.

Like Jacob he wrestled with an angel and maybe a few demons. Grinding and purging the truth that is etched in his soul. All questions are not coupled with privies, but they can be deeply examined in the alchemical process found in Anatomy of a Flame.

A flame is as dangerous as it is life-sustaining. Soul on Fire’s poetry collection, Anatomy of a Flame, speaks to our contradictions – “for we need both light and dark / to traverse beyond the horizon.”

His poems are personal, inviting, and inspirational. Some pieces sing loud and reverberate with power; others are tender and raw.

Soul on Fire explores his often stereotyped Colombian culture, bringing us to an understanding of Colombia beyond drug cartels and Pablo Escobar; while also diving into the more vulnerable themes of suicide, depression, and loss.

Anatomy of a Flame asks us to look deeper inward, challenges us to find our own strength, and dazzles us with poetic beauty. His honesty and kindness shine on the pages

– “Our struggles … / … aren’t the same. // But I can say that / you are worth it.”

The words of a true soul on fire.

In Anatomy of a Flame, Soul on Fire speaks not only to the unread emails and unfinished projects in all of us, but to the layers underneath those every-day demands that claw at our existence.

His heavy-hitting themes of finding patience and grace in his generational trauma help us to dig deeper into ourselves to peel the years and layers underneath our own pain.

His words are also a testament to the power of remembering where we come from. While he frequently sits with moments from his own past, he proves that true healing comes from acknowledging familial trauma that came before him yet shaped him anyway, and it’s a gift to see the way he owns this story throughout these pages.

Soul on Fire shines the most in the way he holds his pain in the same hand that he holds his love.

While you do feel the heaviness of his heart, what you’ll remember is the lightness of his spirit.