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Copy

Copy

Dorantes, Dolores
Myers, Robin

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General Poetry

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ISBN10: 1950268578
ISBN13: 9781950268573
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: Jul 5 2022
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.55 Width: 7.17 Depth: 9.76
Language: English

Without the copying process, the poet Dolores Dorantes has said, there would be no life, no reality. 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.

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