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X/ex/exis : Poemas para la Nación / Raquel Salas Rivera.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Salas Rivera, Roque Raquel, author.
- Series:
- Ambroggio Prize
- Ambroggio Prize Series
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Gender nonconformity--Poetry.
- Gender nonconformity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 97 pages) : illustrations ;
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson, Arizona : The University of Arizona Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Text in Spanish and English on facing pages.
- Summary:
- Written in the early days of the rise of world-wide fascism and the poet's gender transition, x/ex/exis: poemas para la nación/poems for the nation accepts the invitation to push poetic and gender imaginaries beyond the bounds set by nation.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Agradecimientos/Acknowledgments
- x
- notas sobre las temporadas/notes on the seasons
- las memorias de la hija buena/memories of the good daughter
- flores/flowers
- la cortadura/the cut
- they
- entrada/entrance
- si el tiempo es cuir/y la memoria es trans/y me duelen las manos en el frío/entonces // if time is queer/and memory is trans/and my hands hurt in the cold/then
- notas en el tiempo/notes in time
- ex: (la cinta/the ribbon)
- en las cintas más lindas/on the prettiest ribbons
- una cinta repetida/a repeated ribbon
- el largo desfile de altoparlantes en duelo/a long procession of loudspeakers in mourning
- la palabra recursos nos selecciona/the word resources selects us
- al final del mundo hay un hombre/at the end of the world there is a man
- cuando terminó la cinta/when the ribbon ended
- cuando amarras soga y cinta/when you tie rope and ribbon
- en puerto rico heredamos tus guerras/in puerto rico we inherit your wars
- cada traducción es una transformación/each translation is a transformation
- existe una playa/a beach exists
- en peñuelas tumban puertas de activistas/in peñuelas they knock down activists' doors
- (fenomenología)/(phenomenology)
- exis
- buenos días ay bendito/good morning ay bendito
- gigantes podridos/rotten giants
- peleo con mi novia porque los fascistas me quieren matar/i fight with my girlfriend because the fascists want me dead
- una puerta que no cierra porque se expandió la madera/a door that won't close because the wood has expanded
- About Raquel Salas Rivera.
- Notes:
- "Sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, the Ambroggio Prize is given annually to the winner of an open competition among American poets whose primary language is Spanish."
- Ambroggio Prize of the Academy of American Poets, 2018
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780816544073
- 0816544077
- OCLC:
- 1287099295
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