Book cover of Two Brown Dots, poetry collection by Danni Quintos. Bluish gray watermelon slices, strawberries, pair of severed hands and beige leaves, silver medallion sticker for the A. Poulin Jr. Poetry Prize in the top right corner

BOA Editions 20th A. Poulin Jr. Prize winner, chosen by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

 
 
black and white photo of an old bicycle surrounded by banana trees, in the background is the beams of a building

photo by Shelli Quintos

 

Two Brown Dots

“With a remarkable humor and candor, Danni Quintos blazes across these pages in a most magical debut. You'll be utterly charmed and entranced by her poems, which ignite questions of desire and justice rarely offered– unless one amalgamates folklore and childhood in such a brilliantly expansive, moving way. This is it. This is the one you were waiting for.”

- Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of World of Wonders

“Who but the Filipina girl, the keen discerning granddaughter of lola, with the unquiet mind, could turn the hurt and brutality, the invisibility of coming of age in late 20th century America, into an iridescent book of modern day brown girl psalms.”

—Nikky Finney, author of Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry

 

PYTHON 

"I am so moved by Danni Quintos's beautiful book Python— I am moved by the precision and music, in a wonderful dance with the photographs, with which she explores what must be one of our fundamental questions: where, and how, might we belong? Python does not give us answers, which is part of its honesty. But its necessary labor, its wonderful labor, is in illuminating the questions. Because the questions, illuminated, make a kind of home."  

-Ross Gay

 

Essays