Results for "Myers, Robin"

Veering between past and present, between ecological destruction and human violence, What Comes Back is a search for what has vanished and what remains. Javier Pe alosa M.'s What Comes Back is a procession, a journey, a search for a body of water that has disappeared or gone elsewhere. Featured in ... Read More about What Comes Back

A wise, visionary debut on ecological and human resistance, perfect for readers of Joy Harjo and Tracy K. Smith, and fans of the earth-body artwork of Ana MendietaThe Brush is an incantatory, fearless exploration of collective trauma – and its horrific relevance in today’s Colombia, where mass killi... Read More about The Brush: Poems

A failing artist turned forger, an architectural masterpiece hidden behind high walls, an impish vagabond, and some very resourceful, very intimidating twins--Forgery pays homage to greats like Juan Rulfo and Luis Barrag n, traversing late 20th Century Guadalajara with the exuberance and eccentricit... Read More about The Forgery

Five hundred miles from mainland Colombia, grassroots resistance, sloppy vacationers, and a muddy history of conquest converge for Ver nica, returning after living in Mexico City, ready to understand herself and the place she came from. San Andr's rises gently from the Caribbean, part of Colombia bu... Read More about Salt Crystals

"Without the copying process," the poet Dolores Dorantes has said, "there would be no life, no reality." Through deconstructed dictionary entries and powerfully syncopated, recursive texts, COPY is a prose poem sequence that insinuates an experience of violent removal: a person's disappearance from ... Read More about Copy

From one of Mexico's premier poets, the award-winning Tedi L pez Mills, a hybrid, genre-defying book of essays following the unusual and surprising complexities of everyday life. Through thirteen essays, Tedi L pez Mills explores the minutiae that at first glance go unnoticed. In "Improper Nouns," s... Read More about The Book of Explanations