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Scenery - (Poets Out Loud) by José Felipe Alvergue (Paperback)

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  • In scenery, lyric's public voice and memoir's personal reconciliations confront the archives of America's racial and legal histories, resulting in a genre-bending exploration of what it means to exist as oneself for an Other.
  • About the Author: José Felipe Alvergue lives in Eau Claire, WI.
  • 112 Pages
  • Poetry, General
  • Series Name: Poets Out Loud

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Poetry, memoir, archival study on the development of personhood in America through reflections on law, colonial-to-contemporary violence, parenthood, and history.



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In scenery, lyric's public voice and memoir's personal reconciliations confront the archives of America's racial and legal histories, resulting in a genre-bending exploration of what it means to exist as oneself for an Other. The author, a Salvadorean immigrant and parent, reflects on the status of personhood in America between racial supremacy and racial disavowal, thinking through his own structural role as a naturalized citizen, and naturalization's historical condition in the denial of full legal and emotional Black personhood.

This daring work delves into the archive of liberal humanism from colonial era writing on the competing status of slaves to the present, while the visual archive of public news provides an ekphrastic environment to the author's bigger lyric-memory: being the parent of a biracial American-born child in a contemporary era accentuated by violence, white nationalism, and fear.

From seventeenth-century casta paintings up to contemporary coverage of domestic unrest and riots, from the delivery room to scenes of parenthood, Alvergue ponders: What is the kind of emotion a face demonstrates, or a body, an assembly? scenery approaches, in an asymptotic manner, the empathy we come to feel when the language we've made is dulled by the roles we are also expected to occupy against one another.



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scenery is 'a kind of study /that is a bracing/ for impact.' What José Felipe Alvergue tenses for in and perhaps through this brilliant and vulnerable book is the wrack of reckoning. That wreckage sets on the pages in visual and lexical entanglements: 'gnarls' of complicity and protest, privilege and trammel, particular bodies and abstraction. Alvergue moves us through these ruins with unflagging emotional immediacy and intellectual urgency, turning, again and again, on the image of his newborn son, ashen, breathless. scenery is a powerful work, stirred from an instance of the author's desperate powerlessness. We should study this.---Douglas Kearney

Evoking his son's body, José Felipe Alvergue writes: 'How far will ribs expand. What is his. Who is it that is that his. Who is the one feeling skin stretch or the bones move.' This proprioceptive enquiry extends, for me, to the motif of arrival that moves through scenery. How bodies rebound or mix the moment of their implementation (citizenship) so that this moment is also the site of a citizen's complicity (legally, historically, psychologically) with everything that makes [made] their own trajectory a fact. This is a book that makes you look at landscapes, and the figures that occupy them, without bringing attention to the middle ground. The near ground, instead, is where this book focuses itself: images and accounts of bodies convened to suffer, distinctly so. In accessing these images so rapidly, simply by turning the page, I had the sense that Alvergue was saying something, to a possible reader, about the ethics of their own settled or concomitant gaze. What it would be to unsettle the lightness and momentum with which a person reads in the first place. The violence in this book, which is to say the history of violence that this book traces and converts to a kind of poetry, finds its counterpoint in the tenderness and care extended to the writer's child. Flesh notes. Empathy: how far + what is + who.---Bhanu Kapil



About the Author



José Felipe Alvergue lives in Eau Claire, WI.
Dimensions (Overall): 10.1 Inches (H) x 7.1 Inches (W) x .5 Inches (D)
Weight: .6 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 112
Genre: Poetry
Sub-Genre: General
Series Title: Poets Out Loud
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Format: Paperback
Author: José Felipe Alvergue
Language: English
Street Date: September 1, 2020
TCIN: 85097424
UPC: 9780823288670
Item Number (DPCI): 247-49-5184
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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