Twenty miles wide and two thousand long, the U.S.-Mexico borderland
is a country unto itself that has been celebrated in the works of
many writers and not just those who call it home. Here artists as
disparate as Carlos Fuentes, Maya Angelou, and Allen Ginsberg have
found literary inspiration, presenting the region through varied
viewpoints that give border writing its unusual scope and texture.
This wide-ranging anthology gathering short stories and essays,
song lyrics and poems offers readers a new appreciation of the
border and its literature. Residents of the region may be startled
to learn how many passers-by have been struck by this unruly slice
of North America, while those living in other parts of the country
may be surprised to find it more than a dateline for reports of
smuggling and illegal immigration. Collected here are both
celebrated and underappreciated gems of American and Mexican
literature depicting a region that for some writers represents an
exotic land, for others home. Writing on the Edge juxtaposes
passages by New Jersey poet William Carlos Williams and native
songwriter Flaco Jimenez, British novelist Graham Greene and
American poet Demetria Martinez, to show us the border from both
sides and from a distance. In all of the selections, La Frontera
looms larger than life an energizing force that frames the lives of
the characters living within its boundaries. Included in the book
is a literary map of the border highlighting the sites with which
each author is identified. As editor Tom Miller observes, the very
notion of literature in a region considered an ""irrelevant
nuisance"" allows for more free-ranging creative output."" Writing
on the Edge sparkles with such creativity and invites readers to
enjoy the best of two worlds and of the world they share.
""http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/extras/Miller/BorderLitMap.
pdf"">Print a literary map of the borderlands here!
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