Against the Current
Against the Current by Tedi López Mills is a collection of poetry published by Phoneme Media in 2016. This edition, translated into English, spans 80 pages and presents a vivid exploration of a mind that flows like water. The poems depict a river as both a serene and contaminated space, navigating through a hybrid rural and urban landscape filled with allegory and conflict.
Readers will encounter a series of poems that swim against the current, reflecting on themes of memory and identity, particularly through the figure of a brother who embodies both connection and divergence. The translation by Wendy Burk captures the intricate rhythms of the original work, highlighting the contrasts that define Mexico’s cultural landscape. This collection invites readers to engage with the complexities of experience and the interplay of personal and collective histories.
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The poems in Against the Current expose a mind moving fast as water. Tedi Lóoacute;pez Mills renders a river as a cool but contaminated space, propelling its detritus through a hybrid rural/urban zone that is inhabited by allegory and rife with collision. As the poems swim upstream, they accrue the impurities and complicities of memory, embodied in the central figure of the brother who is also the other. Wendy Burk reproduces the baroque, occasionally frenetic rhythms of the abecedarian original with lucidity, in these poems that underscore that Mexico is defined by physical and philosophical contrast.
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