Copy

By Dolores Dorantes

Book Overview

From Mexican-born poet Dolores Dorantes, Copy is a book-length prose poem examining extrication, refuge, and reintegration, presented in English for the first time by award-winning translator Robin Meyers.

Through deconstructed dictionary entries and powerfully syncopated, recursive texts, Copy is a prose poem sequence that insinuates an experience of violent removal: a person's disappearance from a country, from normal life, and forcible reintegration into a new social and existential configuration.

This displaced, dispossessed voice explores what it means to be extracted, subtracted, abstracted out of being--and returned into it. Meditative, urgent, and alive, Copy asserts itself as an invocation, both intensely personal and insistently communal, of the right to refuge, and it enacts a powerful homage to the human capacity for creation and metamorphosis. In this way, this book points to the wound of being extricated, serving as both a suture and a salve.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195026856X
• ISBN13: 9781950268566
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Wave Books
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.9" x 9.3"