Mama Mortality Corridos: Poems And Drawings

Local Description

Designed and printed by Tara McLeod on a Littlejohn cylinder press. The type is 12 pt. linotype Granjon with Helvetica titles, set by Longley Printing Co. The paper is 118gsm Teton warm white. Binding is by Design Bind Ltd. 54 pages. Edition of 70 copies, signed and numbered by the author.

Description

Lisa Samuels writes: Spanish, drawings, and dislocated English come together in this book's poetic experiments with writing death, that 'global language I can't speak.' The poems of Mama Mortality Corridos dwell in the realm of error that seems to characterize the relation of death to the human consciousness, 'dense and fell y verdaderamente / o.k. her straight and bones made / strong and well ...' In its lyrics and fragments, moments and aftermaths, allusions and adornos, Mama Mortality Corridos slides 'acidly through troth.' Mama Mortality Corridos is her first New Zealand book.