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Borderland apocrypha, Anthony Cody

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poetry

Borderland apocrypha

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Anthony Cody

"Borderland Apocrypha is centered around the collective histories of Mexican lynchings following the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and the subsequent erasures, traumas, and state-sanctioned violences committed towards communities of color in the present day. Cody's debut collection responds to the destabilized, hostile landscapes and silenced histories via an experimental poetic that invents and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin, the page, and the book's axis in a resistance, a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. Part autohistoria, part docupoetic, part visual monument, part myth-making, Borderland Apocrypha exhumes the past in order to work toward survival, reckoning, and future- building"--, Provided by publisher

Machine generated contents note: Standing in line to take a passport photo, an old white man looks at me and claims I am running -- Standing here because my grandpa ran away from home to sell perfume en el Zocalo at 9 -- In line I am a lot of things and since I am a lot of things I am everything he cannot imagine -- A passport photo asks me to 2 [×] 2 myself and capture what I am in neutral and I recall I have yet to see the chamber of my heart turn tusk -- An old white man is not Gil-Scott Heron saying: because I always feel like running not away because there is no such place is not how you pronounce exile or escapar -- Looks at me how Teddy Roosevelt died coveting a white buffalo -- Claims I am afraid, no, I am a wall, no, I am a mirror -- I am still, so still -- Prelude to a Mexican Lynching, February 2, 1848, Guadalupe Hidalgo; or The Treaty of Peace, Friendship, Limits, and Settlement -- A Vigilance Committee of Jurors, a Mexican Lynching, 1848-present -- Nopales, A Mexican Lynching, No. 39 -- Framework -- La Sirena, A Mexican Lynching, after the hanging of Josefa Segovia, Downieville, CA, July 5, 1851 -- A Mexican Lynching by El Venado que ve nada, No. 45 -- La Corona, A Mexican Lynching, No. 47 -- Artifacts on a Hanging Tree, Goliad, Texas (a series of 70 Mexican Lynchings, 1857) -- Elegy of Skin, in Kerosene & Mesquite, Antonio Rodriguez, November 3, 1920 -- Still Life as Incantation, after Antonio Gomez, a Mexican Lynching, June 19, 1911 -- Act III -- Scene 2: After the Drowned who Leapt from the Mercurio, Operation Wetback, 1954 -- La Maceta, a Mexican Lynching, in 7 artifacts, No. 52 -- A Request for Information: ICE -- Regarding Immigration Detention Services Expansion, 2017 -- El Arpa, a Mexican Lynching, No. 53 -- Self Portrait: Upon Viewing My Own Crime Scene, a Mexican Lynching -- Bracero(s) & The Ice Car -- How to Lynch a Mexican (1848 -- Present) -- The Things Fed to Fire Return -- Ojo -- Searching -- The Desert is Circular, To Escape, Spiral -- A [Disintegrated] Portrait of God, as a Border -- Looped Instruction with Unimagined Boundary -- The Axolotl Speaks -- No te quedes -- Notes from Discarded -- Eating Migas -- Nightjars -- Taking everything back -- Instructions on How to Build the Morning, Tonight -- Cura for Surviving Drought -- Cura for Exhaustion via Mirror -- Borderland Apocrypha