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Borderland apocrypha / Anthony Cody.
Van Pelt Library PS3603.O29548 B67 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cody, Anthony, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lynching.
- Mexico.
- Lynching--Mexico--Poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 159 pages ; 16 x 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : Omnidawn Publishing, [2020]
- Summary:
- "Borderland Apocrypha is centered around the collective histories of Mexican lynchings following the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and the subsequent erasures, traumas, and state-sanctioned violences committed towards communities of color in the present day. Cody's debut collection responds to the destabilized, hostile landscapes and silenced histories via an experimental poetic that invents and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin, the page, and the book's axis in a resistance, a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. Part autohistoria, part docupoetic, part visual monument, part myth-making, Borderland Apocrypha exhumes the past in order to work toward survival, reckoning, and future- building"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- American Book Awards, Winner, 2021
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781632430762
- 1632430762
- OCLC:
- 1113367233
- Publisher Number:
- 99984132113
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