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With the River on Our Face
Emmy Perez
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Description for With the River on Our Face
Paperback. Series: Camino del Sol. Num Pages: 104 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JM; DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 159.
Emmy Pérez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands through lyric and narrative utterances, auditory and visual texture, chant, and litany that merge and diverge like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection.
Pérez reveals the strengths and nuances of a universe where no word is “foreign.” Her fast-moving, evocative words illuminate the prayers, gasps, touches, and gritos born of everyday discoveries and events. Multiple forms of ... Read more
Emmy Pérez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands through lyric and narrative utterances, auditory and visual texture, chant, and litany that merge and diverge like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection.
Pérez reveals the strengths and nuances of a universe where no word is “foreign.” Her fast-moving, evocative words illuminate the prayers, gasps, touches, and gritos born of everyday discoveries and events. Multiple forms of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Arizona Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Series
Camino del Sol
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816533442
SKU
V9780816533442
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About Emmy Perez
Emmy Pérez earned her MFA from Columbia University and her BA from the University of Southern California, USA. She is an associate professor at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, where she teaches in the MFA in creative writing and Mexican American studies programs.
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