Indifferent Cities
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Tupelo Press, Incorporated
Publishing:1st Dec '25
£16.00
This title is due to be published on 1st December, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
Poems exploring the push and pull of migration and immigration, familial archive, and regional history.
Through one state to another, from one country to the next Indifferent Cities traverses both distance and time to reconcile the most confounding reality of family: our people, sometimes, are the people we know least. Utilizing forms such as ekphrasis and epistolary, the collection sources photographs, postcards, and official documents as well as rumor, suspicion, and supposition to uncover the consequences, by choice or circumstance, of migration and immigration between Mexico and the United States across four generations.
Surveying the terrain of what one knows and does not know, what one inherits and disinherits, Indifferent Cities wrestles with every departure, each arrival, and the author’s inevitable return to determine where and to who he belongs.
"Sometimes ferocious, and always ferociously honest, Ángel García's poems address themselves to the cycle of violence that arises at the many borders, both enforced and inhabited, in the US-Latino experience: between macho stereotypes and sensuous masculinity, between painful alienation and penitent acceptance, and ultimately, between loss and love. Yet for all the bruised fists, black eyes, and broken jaws here, there are no victims in these harrowing poems, as they search not for blame, but for bravery—the courage to see oneself in the mirror, and recognize our universal humanity always hungrily staring back." * Rafael Campo, author of Comfort Measures Only *
ISBN: 9781961209329
Dimensions: 235mm x 191mm x 15mm
Weight: 340g
156 pages