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In Geographic Tongue, an important addition to the Pleiades Press
Visual Poetry Series, Rodney Gomez weaves together themes of loss,
identity, ethnicity, heritage, and the mechanics of contemporary
life to create a collection as lyrically arresting as it is
aesthetically stunning. These visual poems, crafted with both
restraint and vitality, are visceral in their depiction of cruelty
and grief at the United States-Mexico border. And yet, this charged
landscape also gives rise to moments of tenderness, stillness, and
wry humor. Gomez's visual design is at once vivid and haunting,
drawing together collage, diagrams, and abstract imagery into a
bright, geometrically precise collection. His text casts such a
powerful spell that in its absence, silence is heard as clearly as
any phrase. Gomez writes, ""You do not have to speak to speak
truth,"" and this lucid assertion is borne out in the collection as
a whole. In its art, and in its silence, the poems of Geographic
Tongue are undeniably and indelibly authentic.
The winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, Rodney
Gomez's collection "Mouth Filled with Night "employs familiar
emblems of Mexican American identity to repeatedly subvert
expectations while intensifying the dilemmas of affiliation. The
poems run beyond more conventional ideas of agency, identity, and
experience, creating a newly invigorated imaginative space. As a
collection, "Mouth Filled with Night "gains particular momentum--a
pitched anxiety that slowly grows throughout the volume--to create
a poetic experience unique to the chapbook form.
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