Ceremony of Sand (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936919673)

Poetry. Latinx Studies. Set along the U.S.-Mexican border, CEREMONY OF SAND is an examination of hiddenness, of those things the borderlands want kept secret, of the banal violence that is both internally created and forced upon it. The collection exposes the futility of naming the borderlands as one particular type of place and tackles the complexity of its inhabitants, their contradictions, their language, and their failures. In poems both fatalistic and deeply hopeful, CEREMONY OF SAND serves as witness as it also addresses the complexity of developing a language of unique personhood while living inside a culture that expects recapitulation of its own aesthetics and beliefs.

Author: Rodney Gomez
ISBN-10: 1936919672
ISBN-13: 9781936919673
Publisher: YesYes Books
Language: English
Published: 04/15/2019
Pages: 82
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.80w x 0.30d