In Lost Cities Go to Paradise, poetry breaks into song and poetic
prose becomes lively storytelling as Alicia Borinsky raises
intimate questions about the fragility of contemporary life.
Composed of many layered scenes, unforgettable characters,
snapshots, and vignettes, this collection of quick-witted poems and
short fiction mixes deceit and conceit with moments of tenderness
and the elusive nature of humanity, asking if identity is more than
a festival of masks and self-invention. At the center of Borinsky's
work are the cities, which are a masquerade of disaster and
spectacle that moves through space and time. Within these cities
reside a woman who hides her face so that she may be better seen,
cheating lovers who betray only to end up entwined in a tango, and
immigrants who borrow one another's accents. Filled with energy and
irreverence, Lost Cities Go to Paradise captures the indignities
and excitement of living among others in a society and discovering
what is valued-and all that is not.
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