{"product_id":"against-the-current-paperback-1","title":"Against the Current - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTedi López Mills\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eWendy Burk\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e expose a mind moving fast as water. Tedi López 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTedi López Mills\u003c\/b\u003e is one of Mexico's foremost poets writing today. Born in Mexico City in 1959, she studied philosophy at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and literature at the Sorbonne. She is the author of ten books of poetry and two essay collections, several of which have received national literary prizes, including the Premio Xavier Villaurrutia, \"Mexico's Pulitzer Prize,\" for her verse novel \u003ci\u003eMuerte en la rúa Augusta\u003c\/i\u003e (2009). López Mills sets the pace for her contemporaries with work that is linguistically inventive and philosophically rigorous. She invokes the classics, the troubadours, and the pastoral tradition with an underlying skepticism about language, landscape, and causality that keeps her work current, engaging the eye while troubling the \"I.\" She lives in Mexico City, Mexico. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWendy Burk\u003c\/b\u003e was the recipient of a 2013 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Translation Fellowship to translate \u003ci\u003eAgainst the Current\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of two chapbooks, \u003ci\u003eThe Deer\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Place Names The Place Named\u003c\/i\u003e, and the translator of Tedi López Mills's \u003ci\u003eWhile Light Is Built\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. She lives in Tucson, AZ.\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.2 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67959465246941,"sku":"9781939419781","price":19.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/3nE897ObmW9781939419781.webp?v=1790812230","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/against-the-current-paperback-1","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}