Precis
Precis by José Felipe Alvergue, published by Omnidawn Publishing in 2017, is a 96-page exploration of the complexities surrounding the Mexico/US border. This edition delves into the themes of literary criticism and poetry, examining the border as a policed realm and a neoliberal market. Through a narrative that intertwines personal and communal experiences, the book invites readers to reflect on the significance of bodies within this charged geography.
In Precis, Alvergue presents a nuanced mapping of the border, addressing the death of a girl and the media’s portrayal of border bodies. The work resists definitive conclusions, instead prompting readers to consider the spectral echoes and traces that shape our understanding of this landscape. By engaging with the questions of what should be acknowledged alongside what is known, the book encourages a deeper contemplation of the affective dimensions of the border experience.
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The border is a policed realm, neoliberal market, an affective landscape of spectral echoes, a geography of traces. The death of a girl, a crossing narrative, media static of late-century rhetoric on border bodies, precis involves poetry in mapping the Mexico/US border and its relationship to America, while resisting the urge to impose definitiveness. precis simply asks: What about the body? What about the personal and the communal? The reader is asked to follow along without forgetting that overshadowed in every moment of the known, every authorization of what is, there is a print or silence asking what should also be.
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