Kiese Laymon has called Roberto's work "the new standard for race writing in America," and Dr. Marisel Moreno of Notre Dame University calls Roberto "one of the most important Afro-Latinx poets of his generation."

Charting the personal and the political, the lyrical and the prosaic, with an intense interrogation of anti-Blackness that centers Trans-Atlantic and Latinx Blackness in all its vastness, beauty, and pride. This necessary book compiles the best of Roberto’s three poetry collections. These selected poems will introduce Garcia’s work to a broader audience. Like the poem it takes its title from, What Can I Tell Youconveys a poet wrestling with what it means to make poetry from the bread of life. At times formal and playful, and at others, deadly serious, Garcia’s capacious range of themes and obsessions are on full display within its pages.

Born in Harlem, NYC to Dominican immigrants, Roberto Carlos Garcia lives in New Jersey. Roberto is an Assistant Professor of English at Union College, and his prose and poetry have been widely published.