Against the Current by Tedi López Mills and translated by Wendy Burk

This is poetry from Mexico.

Against the Current by Tedi López Mills translated by Wendy Burk is published by Phoneme Media. This is a Book originally written in Spanish. This was published in 2016.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781939419781E12.

Tedi López Mills’s Against the Current, translated by Wendy Burk, is a Mexican poetry entry whose title carries resistance without needing to announce a program. To move against the current is to feel the force of history, convention, language, or expectation pressing in the opposite direction. López Mills is a poet of intellectual clarity and lyric complication, and the book likely asks the reader to attend to motion, refusal, and the mind’s private counterflow. Published by Phoneme Media, it belongs in the library as a contemporary Mexican work that thinks sharply without giving up mystery. I would read it for the places where argument becomes image and image becomes a way of resisting drift.

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