Borderland Apocrypha Cody Anthony
Borderland Apocrypha Cody Anthony The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican--American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and…
Specifikacia Borderland Apocrypha Cody Anthony
Borderland Apocrypha Cody Anthony
The 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo marked an end to the Mexican--American War, but it sparked a series of lynchings of Mexicans and subsequent erasures, and long-lasting traumas. Borderland Apocrypha centers around the collective histories of these terrors, excavating the traumas born of turbulence at borderlands. This pattern of state-sanctioned violence committed towards communities of color continues to the present day.
His experimental poetic reinvents itself and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin, the page, and the book in forms of resistance, signaling a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. In this debut collection, Anthony Cody responds to the destabilized, hostile landscapes and silenced histories of borderlands. The poems ask the reader to engage in searching through the nested and cascading series of poems centered around