Written in the early days of the rise of world-wide fascism and the poet’s gender transition, x/ex/exis: poemas para la naci n/poems for the nation accepts the invitation to push poetic and gender imaginaries beyond the bounds set by nation.
From teen dysphoria, to the incarceration of anticolonial activists Oscar L pez and Nina Droz Franco, to the entanglement of church and state, these poems acknowledge the violence of imposed binaries. For Salas Rivera, the x marks Puerto Rican transness in a world that seeks trans death, denial, and erasure. Instead of justifying his existence, he takes up the flag of illegibility and writes an apocalyptic book that screams into an uncertain future, armed with nothing to lose. In today’s post-disaster Puerto Rico and a world shaped by the recurring waves of an ecological apocalypse, Salas Rivera’s words feel visionary, mapping a decolonizing territory, a body, and identity of both soil and heart.Author: Raquel Salas Rivera
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 08/17/2021
Series: Ambroggio Prize
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780816544073
Language: Spanish
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