Jose Felipe Alvergue: en el norte / soy del sur, Kartoniert / Broschiert
en el norte / soy del sur
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- Verlag:
- Omnidawn Publishing, 06/2026
- Einband:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781632432124
- Artikelnummer:
- 12707232
- Umfang:
- 110 Seiten
- Gewicht:
- 454 g
- Erscheinungstermin:
- 5.6.2026
- Hinweis
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Klappentext
Poetry that considers migration and identity through formal experimentation with sonnets.
José Felipe Alvergue's en el norte / soy del sur, which translates to "in the north I am of the south," is an exploration into the limits of the American sonnet, one that seeks to establish a stable sense of place, while opening vistas at each turn. Stitching together multiple sonnets into what he calls "sonnet essays," Alvergue rides their turns--or "voltas"--that are guided by memories and photographs of his family's migratory history between El Salvador and the United States.
The resulting text is a story of human geography that considers the coordinates of a long, continuous thought about what it means to be "of a place" as a defining characteristic of identity, when one is also "in a place" that sets strict limits on the political and historical potential of im / migrants. A deeply human documentary work that delves into one family's migration across the hemisphere, en el norte / soy del sur hopes to give shape to the collective and often amorphous history of migration in the face of narratives that peddle spectacularized distillation and essentialism.