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From the University of Chicago Press<\/p>\n
Metropolitan Latinidad: Transforming American Urban History<\/a> Edited by A. K. Sandoval-Strausz<\/p>\n This wide-ranging collection of essays centers Latinos in the history of American cities and suburbs. Traversing metropolitan areas like Atlanta, Chicago, El Paso, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York, Metropolitan Latinidad brings together both established and emerging scholars, including long-time urbanists and academics working in the fields of Latino, borderlands, political, landscape, and religious history.\u00a0<\/p>\n Moon Mirrored Indivisible<\/a> By Farid Matuk<\/p>\n \u201cTranscendent work. Words stretch to their limits in Moon Mirrored Indivisible, making a new and necessary language for revolution. In a world preoccupied with occupation, these poems give liberatory breath. Read and allow yourself to be rearranged.\u201d\u2014Marwa Helal, author of Ante Body<\/p>\n Interstices: Negotiations at Contemporary Art\u2019s Boundaries<\/a> By Alexander Alberro<\/p>\n With this book, Alexander Alberro engages decolonial theory to explore the dynamic exchanges that occur where the ideals and values of different artistic frameworks meet, showing how the tensions at the edges of the Western art framework are pushing it toward its discursive limits. His examples include a range artists and collectives from around the world, including Iosu Aramburu, Mabe Beth\u00f4nico, El Colectivo, Maria Galindo and Mujeres Creando, Doris Salcedo, and World of Matter.<\/p>\n Devotion in Motion: Pilgrimage in Modern Mexico<\/a> By Edward Wright-R\u00edos<\/p>\n Through the story of a centuries-old, ever-changing Catholic shrine to Our Lady of Juquila in Oaxaca, Mexico, Wright-R\u00edos reveals how tradition, innovation, marketing, and devotion coexist and interact in pilgrimage. In Devotion in Motion, Edward Wright-R\u00edos argues that we misunderstand pilgrimage (past and present) if we ignore its dynamic relationship with the rhythms of daily life and community.<\/p>\n From ACMRS Press<\/p>\n The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 2<\/a> Edited by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero Santos<\/p>\n For decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theater-makers have worked to repurpose the plays of William Shakespeare to reflect the histories and lived realities of the United States\u2013Mexico Borderlands, or La Frontera. Celebrating this rich tradition, The Bard in the Borderlands brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time in a multi-volume, open-access scholarly edition, creating space to tell stories of and for this complex and important region.<\/p>\n From Acre Books<\/p>\n Bad Mexican, Bad American<\/a>: Poems By Jose Hernandez Diaz<\/p>\n \u201cBad Mexican, Bad American is like quenching a thirst that for too long has gone unsatisfied. Latinos in general, and Chicanos in particular, yearn for rich, full and authentic expressions of our community. Hern\u00e1ndez provides the perfect elixir to address this need through his beautifully drawn personal poems and his whimsically surreal prose poetry. . . . These reminders of our humanity are not luxuries that sit in libraries unread, but instead critical shields from the violence towards our Latino communities. Bad Mexican, Bad American is truly like water for all of us in a desert of headlines saying that we do not belong.\u201d\u2014Los Angeles Review<\/p>\n From Carnegie Mellon University Press<\/p>\n No<\/a> By Idea Vilari\u00f1o, Translated by Mar\u00eda Jos\u00e9 Zubieta<\/p>\n In No, Idea Vilari\u00f1o strips poetry to its essence\u2014distilling love, loss, and the inexorable passage of time into spare yet searing verses. Renowned as a leading voice of Uruguay\u2019s \u201cGeneration of 45,\u201d Vilari\u00f1o\u2019s final collection is at once a defiant refusal and an unrelenting assertion of existence. From its stark nihilism emerges a poetic voice that insists on being heard, even as it denies life\u2019s joys.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n From Hirmer Publishers\u00a0<\/p>\n Xican-a.o.x. Body<\/a> Edited by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Marissa Del Toro, and Gilbert Vicario<\/p>\n Xican-a.o.x Body centers on the political and creative resistance of Xicanx artists from 1968 to the present. Presenting new histories of Xicanx art, the book illustrates how some seventy artists have foregrounded the Brown body to explore, expand, and complicate the Mexican American, Latinx, and Xicanx experiences, emphasizing the term Xicanx for greater acknowledgment of indigenous roots and intersectional identities.<\/p>\n From Omnidawn\u00a0<\/p>\n WHITMAN. CANNONBALL. PUEBLA.<\/a> By Rodrigo Toscano<\/p>\n This four-part collection of poetic fables engages the emerging field of global-poetics through Hispano-Americano lenses. Toscano\u2019s poems present a cultural landscape where the Anglo-capitalist outlook is tempered\u2014if not subsumed\u2014by a Greater Americas \u201cSalamanca Humanism,\u201d which was the basis for the 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights.<\/p>\n From Park Books<\/p>\n Conc\u00e9ntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory<\/a> Edited by Javier Pe\u00f1a lb\u00e1\u00f1ez and Nick Axel<\/p>\n Conc\u00e9ntrico: Urban Innovation Laboratory reflects on the first decade of the international Conc\u00e9ntrico festival of design and architecture in Logro\u00f1o, Spain. This book introduces meaningful ways to address and engage with pressing urban issues\u2014from identity and heritage to temporariness, collectivity, ecology, play, and domesticity\u2014through the lens of selected Conc\u00e9ntrico commissions since 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n From Seagull Books<\/p>\n Crossings: \u201cVaried Imagination\u201d and \u201cLiving between Languages\u201d<\/a> By Sylvia Molloy, Edited by Diana Taylor<\/p>\n In Crossings, Sylvia Molloy embarks on an evocative exploration of the intricate and profound experience of living between languages, cultures, and geographies. A pioneering Argentine writer, fluent in Spanish, English, and French, Molloy inhabited all three languages, shuttling back, forth, and between, aware that each place and each language bring forth a different self.<\/p>\n From Swan Isle Press<\/p>\n My Excellency: Comedy in Three Acts<\/a> By Luis Rechani Agrait, Translated by William Carlos Williams, Edited and with Introduction by Jonathan Cohen<\/p>\n William Carlos Williams\u2019s \u201clost\u201d translation of Puerto Rican dramatist Luis Rechani Agrait\u2019s masterpiece. My Excellency is a political farce set in an \u201cimaginary country\u201d that resembles Puerto Rico during the Great Depression, with its high unemployment and labor unrest. The play focuses on the plight of an idealistic but naive man, Buenaventura Padilla, in a completely corrupt political system. Through an unscrupulous election, he becomes the nation\u2019s leader.<\/p>\n The Men Who Killed My Mother | Los hombres que mataron a mi madre<\/a><\/p>\n Poetry | Poes\u00eda<\/a><\/p>\n Bilingual edition By Fernando Valverde, Translated by Gordon E. McNeer<\/p>\n These poems present a powerful account of the symbolic murder of the poet\u2019s mother, though it quicly becomes evident that the mother in \u201cOur Mother\u201d (\u201cNuestra Madre\u201d) is not only Fernando Valverde\u2019s. The soulful refrain of \u201cmother\/madre\u201d might be anyone\u2019s mother whose suffering is palpable in a world legislated over by men. Issues such as orphanhood, abuse, violence, manipulation, and fear are treated with the rawness of someone who has tasted the venom of betrayal.\u00a0<\/p>\n From Tupelo Press<\/p>\n Indifferent Cities<\/a> By \u00c1ngel Garc\u00eda<\/p>\n \u201cGarc\u00eda\u2019s 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\u00a0 poems, as they search not for blame, but for bravery\u2014the courage to see oneself in the mirror, and recognize our universal humanity always hungrily staring back.\u201d\u2014Rafael Campo, author of Comfort Measures Only<\/p>\n From University of Wales Press<\/p>\n