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Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "Rosa Alcala's poems dwell in the
liminal space between the personal and the political--poems built
on the idea that 'the world exists, ' and that work to define the
metaphysical and ephemeral architectures of origin, migration,
nationalism, and loss. Rosa Alcala is uncompromising, wry, and
brutal: all of the qualities that significant poetic works of
cultural criticism require."--Carmen Gimenez Smith"'I want to know
how everything changes with the price of admission, ' writes Rosa
Alcala in her extraordinary new book. These poems begin at the
exact point where 'the fundamental concepts of elementary
navigation / become unhinged, ' as they invent a new way of
talking: developing tenuous and affectionate convergences between
desire and fear, love and anger--even sex, money, tradition, and
the history of appearances. It's all here. What fascinates Alcala
is precisely what animates her poetry: 'the mess of lost power, '
compelled at once by contradiction and complicity, yet cleaving
with an unsentimental eye and an inspiring wit."--Joshua Marie
Wilkinson
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. "If poetic episodes can act as
gauges of social role-playing and role-disruption, what might lie
'outside' the roles 'we' 'inhabit?' What remains undocumented, but
hardly silent? What are the sensed and projected traces of
'identity' that are ideologically eviscerated, and minimally
verifiable? Rosa Alcala calls up a most magical theater when
exploring these quandaries. The tipping (flash) points she
constructs continuously build up toward the (touched, handled,
engaged) experiential moment, all the while resisting an
object-status art. This is a poetics that's prologue + epilogue to
incidence, and never the 'it' itself. Sweet tin on tawny brass,
flesh-toned, radio-worthy"--Rodrigo Toscano.
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