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Against the Current

Tedi López Mills

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9781939419781
UPC:
9781939419781
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Published by:
Phoneme Media
Translated by:
Wendy Burk
Pub date:
05/10/2016
Binding type:
Paperback
Pages:
80
ISBN:
9781939419781
The poems in Against the Current expose a mind moving fast as water. Tedi L pez Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural/urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision. As the poems swim upstream, they accrue the impurities and complicities of memory, embodied in the central figure of the brother who is also the other. Wendy Burk reproduces the baroque, occasionally frenetic rhythms of the abecedarian original with lucidity, in these poems that underscore that Mexico is defined by physical and philosophical contrast.