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

Several book covers lined up including Two Brown Dots for The Best Southern Books of April 2022 — Southern Review of Books - The Best Southern Books of April 2022

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

black and white double exposure photo of Mima, Danni and a window with a curtain

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

“Danni Quintos’s book Two Brown Dots, in addition to thinking hard about motherhood, the body, ancestry, and more, is one of the most beautiful and tender and honest depictions of the youthful negotiations of racism I’ve ever read: the lostness, the entanglements, the confusions, the hurts, the loves. How many times I gasped or dropped my head into my hands or shook my head in recognition at how clearly, how precisely, she depicted what I have felt but never quite had the words or courage to say. It is a wonder how poems can care for us like that. It is a mercy.”

—Ross Gay, author of Be Holding

Reviews for TBD:

Southern Review of Books “Two Brown Dots” is Anchored in the Body by Lenna Jawdat

Publishers Weekly Review

RHINO Poetry Interview with Naoko Fujimoto

Still: The Journal Review by Katerina Stoykova

MER (Mom Egg Review) Review by Laura Dennis

Cincinnati Review Interview with Anni Liu

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