Copy
Published on 19. May 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
88 pages
978-1-950268-56-6 (ISBN)
Description
From Mexican-born poet Dolores Dorantes, Copy is a book-length prose poem examining extrication, refuge, and reintegration, presented in English for the first time by award-winning translator Robin Meyers.
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 a country, from normal life, and forcible reintegration into a new social and existential configuration.
This displaced, dispossessed voice explores what it means to be extracted, subtracted, abstracted out of being-and returned into it. Meditative, urgent, and alive, Copy asserts itself as an invocation, both intensely personal and insistently communal, of the right to refuge, and it enacts a powerful homage to the human capacity for creation and metamorphosis. In this way, this book points to the wound of being extricated, serving as both a suture and a salve.
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 a country, from normal life, and forcible reintegration into a new social and existential configuration.
This displaced, dispossessed voice explores what it means to be extracted, subtracted, abstracted out of being-and returned into it. Meditative, urgent, and alive, Copy asserts itself as an invocation, both intensely personal and insistently communal, of the right to refuge, and it enacts a powerful homage to the human capacity for creation and metamorphosis. In this way, this book points to the wound of being extricated, serving as both a suture and a salve.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-950268-56-6 (9781950268566)
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Persons
Dolores Dorantes is an Acharya in the Buddhist tradition, a journalist, writer, therapist, poet, performer, and sacred animal. She is a Mexican born in the mountains of Veracruz in 1973 but raised in Ciudad Juarez. Recent books translated into English are The River, a collaboration with the artist Zoe Leonard, and Style. Her socio-cultural writings and political-social reflections, along with the majority of her books, are part of the commons at www.doloresdorantes.blogspot.com. She believes in a United Latin America.
Robin Myers is a translator and poet. She writes a monthly column for Palette Poetry and lives in Mexico City.
Robin Myers is a translator and poet. She writes a monthly column for Palette Poetry and lives in Mexico City.