En El Norte / Soy del Sur
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Poetry that considers migration and identity through formal experimentation with sonnets. José Felipe Alvergue's en el norte/soy del sur, which translates to "in the north I am of the south," is an exploration into the limits of the American sonnet, one that seeks to establish a stable sense of place, while opening vistas at each turn. Stitching together multiple sonnets into what he calls "sonnet essays," Alvergue rides their turns-or "voltas"-that are guided by memories and photographs of his family's migratory history between El Salvador and the United States. The resulting text is a story of human geography that considers the coordinates of a long, continuous thought about what it means to be "of a place" as a defining characteristic of identity, when one is also "in a place" that sets strict limits on the political and historical potential of im/migrants. A deeply human documentary work that delves into one family's migration across the hemisphere, en el norte/soy del sur hopes to give shape to the collective and often amorphous history of migration in the face of narratives that peddle spectacularized distillation and essentialism.
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Book Details
- Publisher:
- Omnidawn
- ISBN:
- 9781632432124
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 110
- Authors:
- José Felipe Alvergue
- Published Date:
- 2026-06-05
- Language:
- English
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