Raft of Flame - Couverture souple

Alvarez, Desirée

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1632430819 ISBN 13 : 9781632430816

Editeur : Omnidawn, 2020

Synopsis

A painter and poet, Desirée Alvarez engages with the powerful forces of lyric and rhythm to create a collection that moves across time and place. Inspired by Lorca’s passionate cante jondo, or “deep song,” and her own family history with Andalusian flamenco, Alvarez weaves together a time-travelling epic that searches through myth, culture, and nature for the roots of identity. Navigating both her Latina and European heritage through works by artists of the ancient Americas and Spain, Alvarez maps intersections between personal and political history. Searching narratives both fictitious and real, Raft of Flame includes imagined conversations between a conquistador and an Olmec sculpture, between Frida Kahlo and Velazquez, and between The Wizard of Oz’s Dorothy and Glinda the Good Witch.

In Raft of Flame, Alvarez constructs and fleshes out a fantastic narrative of personal and cultural history, offering glimpses into the art, history, and land that comprise her story. Her narrative explores how both nature and human populations continue to be trapped in the violence of colonialism. Vivid lyrics interrogate the complexities of mixed race, digging the dualities, upheavals, and casts of characters that underly Alvarez’s identity.

Raft of Flame won Omnidawn's 2018 Lake Merritt Prize.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Desirée Alvarez is a painter, poet, and the author of Devil's Paintbrush. She teaches at The City University of New York and The Juilliard School.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Omnidawn
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1632430819
• ISBN 13: 9781632430816
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible