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Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes

By Elizabeth Torres

Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes Poetry

Lotería: Nocturnal Sweepstakes

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The vision begins with a river. From this river, you can see a village, marine life, and ancestral rituals. It is here that you recognize origins, and a poison beginning to spread through paradise. Suddenly, a premonition: a wounded animal. The certainty of war cries. What you take with you is what you become, each movement a gamble, a lottery of life that transforms you until this moment, when uncertainty becomes an ally. LoterÍa: Nocturnal Sweepstakes is a collection of deeply evocative coming-of-age poems that take the reader on a voyage through the intimate experiences of displacement. Conjuring dreamlike visions of extravagant fruits and rivers animated by the power of divination, these poems follow the speaker from the lash of war’s arrival through an urgent escape and reinvention in a land that saves with maternal instinct but also smothers its children. In this bilingual collection, Colombian American poet Elizabeth Torres threads together the stories of family dynamics and the realities of migration with the archetypes of tarot and the traditional LoterÍa game, used for centuries as an object of divination and entertainment. Through these themes and images, the poems in LoterÍa narrate intimate moments in the lives and journeys of migrants, refugees, and all who have been forced into metamorphosis in order to reach the other side of the river.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
128
Release Date:
2023-02-28
Publication Date:
2023-02-28
Publisher:
University of Arizona Press
Languages:
Original: Spanish
ISBN10:
0816549605
ISBN13:
9780816549603
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
320 g
Height:
150 cm
Width:
225 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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